ATD review in PMC

[John BAILEY]

"In some respects, the knock against the style of Against the Day may be
that it is too accessible. That seeming accessibility, however, can be
deceptive, masking an implicit critique of how the various narrative
styles that Pynchon parodies have aided the powerful in maintaining a
culture of containment as opposed to the culture of anarchy that Against
the Day celebrates and questions in turn." 

Is this why so many find AtD inferior to GR? Because the latter evokes
that "culture of anarchy" on a formal level, while AtD is a series of
stylistic masks we're desperate (but never finally able) to see beneath?

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Bernard Duyfhuizen, "The Exact Degree of Fictitiousness": Thomas
Pynchon's _Against the Day_. A review of Thomas Pynchon, _Against the
Day_. New York: Penguin, 2006.


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Right... Here...
"The Exact Degree of Fictitiousness": Thomas Pynchon's _Against the Day_
0000-00-00 / Unknown / Unknown
67 score, 183 phrases, 5110 words, 29 kb, 1684 terms, 16 links.
 against pynchon novel characters text webb day they power vibe those
his traverse some where her plot their before deuce family gravity
novels rainbow expect course them chums who narrative however lake
  -- http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/17.2duyfhuizen.html


In Against the Day , Pynchon is not bound by the "real lives" of his key
characters, so he has space to develop each one in relation to the
conditions of their experiences.
  -- http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/17.2duyfhuizen.html

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
Copyleft(!) Forward freely.


P.S. reading many AstroTheology web site pages, I found this; Perhaps it
could inform the ATD acronym T.W.I.T.?

However, the title David (from DWD or TWT, meaning "Beloved," - hence
TUTankhamen) has been found to refer to the kings of the Egyptian
Eighteenth Dynasty, that is, to the Cult of Aton.

Again, similar with URL:
The Biblical David, identified as Tuthmosis III (1490-1436 B.C.), is
derived from dwd in the Bible, which becomes twt, Tuth, in Egyptian.
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/JesusTut.html

Again, perhaps a page worth saving away: "Arabic Etymological
Dictionary"
http://etymological.freeweb.hu/AEDweb.htm
tut : mulberry [Sem t-w-t, Mal tuta, Akk tuttu, Heb tut, JNA tutha] Aze
tut, Rom dud, Per tut, Ser dud, Tur dut borrowed from Ar


P.P.S.
Astrotheology also got me to surf "anselm, hebrew" and turned up this
long but fascinating web page from a book on common low: Perhaps esp.
for Robin...?

Now the ancient Irish Celts and the (later) ancient Brythonic Celts
themselves both derived from the same Proto-Celtic Gomer-ian and/or
kindred Magog-ian stock - before settling in the British Isles. For
ideologically, both were 'insulated Japhethites' of the coastlands and
islands who long kept on dwelling in the tents of Shem.
  --
http://homepage.mac.com/macfhionn/FREUMH/FeallsanachdDiadhaireachd/FNLee
/ComLawPreChBrit.html

Rev. Canon J.A. McCullogh of Skye in the Hebrides, in his scholarly
article 'Celts' (within the Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and
Ethics ), 62 remarks that the Celts had settled (probably during
Neolithic times) between the headwaters of the Rhine, Elbe, and Danube -
coming from the Crim-ea as the Gomer-ic Cimmer-ians. They became known
to the Greeks as the Hyperboreans or 'Far-Northern' people (regarded as
dwelling in bliss).
  --
http://homepage.mac.com/macfhionn/FREUMH/FeallsanachdDiadhaireachd/FNLee
/ComLawPreChBrit.html

No later than the third century, Cormac MacArt inscripturated 81 the
extremely ancient Psalter of Tara . He also required all his fianna
warriors to memorize twelve books of poetry. 82 Note: twelve books!
  --
http://homepage.mac.com/macfhionn/FREUMH/FeallsanachdDiadhaireachd/FNLee
/ComLawPreChBrit.html

Ancient History Professor Nora Chadwick declares 126 that among the very
first Celtic peoples, the inculcation of poetic inspiration and what she
calls the mantic art were well developed and elaborated to an
unparalleled degree. Thus, those Ancient Celts were quite unique as
regards the preservation of original revelation and its predictions -
and also as regards their endowment with a high measure of common grace
with which to apprehend and to appreciate it.
  --
http://homepage.mac.com/macfhionn/FREUMH/FeallsanachdDiadhaireachd/FNLee
/ComLawPreChBrit.html



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