New Member from UK

[David Casseres]

OK! OK!

On 1/3/07, the Robot Vegetable <veg at dvandva.org> wrote:
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> yes! she said yes! 3-to-1 Dilute! All-One-Pynchon!
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> On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 philter52 at mac.com wrote:
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> > 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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