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philter52 at mac.com
philter52 at mac.com
Wed Jan 3 21:59:56 CST 2007
To whomsoever it may concern,
What exalted company! The cognoscenti nay the illuminati,esotericists
all.I am 52 and have read Pynchon since I was in my 20s,reading 'V'
first and then the UK Penguin edition of the "Crying of Lot
49"......... . .right through to.............."Against the Day'.Some
Pynchon lines/words that have entered the "echo chambers of the[my]
self"(George Steiner): "paranoid nexus","Icy Eye",'laughter no
joke"(on the affects of cannabis inhaled by the 'Paranoids'),"the
whole sick crew",the 'Inconvenience'...........
Universal=Entropy.
Particular=Paranoia
Universal=Wonder(metaphysics-ontology)
Particular=Mystery/Secrecy.......
Universal=Cosmic
Particular=Jokes,songs,cartoons.
Hermeneutics..........................................................??
?Historicism,Scientism,Modernism,Post-Modernism...........
As for Post-Modernism, a friend of mine said the following:"I know
it when I see it,but cannot tell you what it is".
The Pynchon world:paradox,our world,don't take it too
seriously,but act as if your life depended on it.Live in spite of,
you never know what lies beyond/nearby-Oz or an infinite number of
worlds(logically possible along with solipsism)and dare I say it?God
and post-irony.Don't worry it's all contextual-Pynchon,like Vonnegut
abhors the semi-colon but not the vacuum.
Pynchon and DeLillo,two American Masters,
I salute you and your admirers,keep in touch,
Regards-Phileastine
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