Deadfall

[Mark Kohut]

Thomas Pynchon is the writer in the second half of the 20th Century most like
  James Joyce, I would argue...but TRP has not made the mistake of writing a big
  book that is more word games than insights into our world.
   
  GR is very like Ulysses in its immediacy, language, use of myth, metaphor and overarching
  vision of life and History.....like it yet very different.
   
  AtD is easier than either Ulysses or GR in many stretches but it is still very dense with multivalent meanings.....with Iceland Spar as the internal metaphor about that....it is encrypted with meanings, that unfold like flowers or cystals,,,that connect like underground techtonic plates AND like the vastest webbing I've encountered.
   
  Yes, it is "all in the text"......but we need to find it and bring it out........sometimes a deadfall is more than a dead fall.......
   
  My 2 cents,
  Mark

Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
  Thomas Pynchon is not James Joyce. I don't believe that AtD needs to 
be decoded or interpreted or that there is any underlying 
scheme. It's all there in the text and stands without support from 
Crowleyites, Hanged Men (which I used as a bookmark before even 
starting the thing) or Zetamaniacs.
The term "Deadfall" is used often in The Barbary Coast by Herbert 
Asbury. I have a 1933 first edition but it's available at:
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hbtbcidx.htm 



       
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