Pynchon's misdirection

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 31 11:00:22 CST 2007


--- Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> You might also want to check out this fine post,
> from a knowledgeable and frequent contributor to
> the p-list....
> 
>
http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114275&sort=date

THAT guy ... I'd call him a bastard and/or
son-of-a-bitch, but I have it on good word his
parents, at least, were fine, upstanding folk
(R.I.P.).  He owes me money, lost me my girlfriend,
and has, over the past couple/three decades, ruined my
life ...
 
> And I'll just add a quote myself, here, from Molly
> Hite's 'Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas
> Pynchon' (one of my favourite books on Pynchon):
> 
> "Like all questing heroes, Oedipa has traveled
> through a wasteland, but her commitment to the
> quest has prevented her from grasping the fact
> central to the novel, that waste is precisely
> what is most valuable...." (90-91)

... A-AND he put all my books in storage. Thanks!


 
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