Pynchon's endings

[Daniel Harper]

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 15:38, you wrote:
> --- Daniel Harper <daniel_harper at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I'm referring to something a bit different. While
> > the "meaning" of Lot 49 is buried in the meaning
> > of Trystero, etc., I think it's entirely possible
> > to read the novel as a series of set pieces without
> > any real overall meaning.
> > And the book is meaningful and wonderful even on
> > those terms.
> >
> > Two name two examples from that novel, the two
> > that struck me as particularly great even upon a
> > first, Jack-Daniels-laden read:
>
> 3.) The Courier's Tragedy ...

Yes, another example.

Prominent in ATD as a "could be a novel, but with Pynchon it's just a few 
pages" is the Jeshimon sequence and <spoiler warning>the relationship between 
Frank, Yash, and Cyprian around page eight hundred or so</spoiler warning>. 

>
> Meanwhile, on "the meaning of Trystero," see ...
>
> Petillon, Pierre-Yves.  "A Re-cognition of Her
>    Errand into the Wilderness."  New Essays on
>    The Crying of Lot 49.  Ed. Patrick O'Donnell.
>    New York: Cambridge UP, 1991.  127-70
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0311&msg=87452
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84682
>
>

So much good stuff here. I'm tempted to go wander through the entire archives. 
I believe understanding Pynchon is really a lifelong project....

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