New Member from UK

[Tim Strzechowski]

Welcome, Philip!  You're ... uh ... gonna fit right in here!   : )

T

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From: philter52 at mac.com 

> 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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