The Poetics of Transgression: Schizophrenia, Paranoia,

[Bryan Snyder]

I tore up the two books I found and ordered about GR (and TP in general)
very quickly. I ate them up.  It does say something: the Shakespeare example
Dan mentioned, which is probably true.  I would imagine all writers secretly
hope their work is labored over like Shakespeare's is. I'm not sure what I
want to end up "doing with my life" (is this something I should worry about
at 27??) but I am pretty certain that even without knowing. I would want it
to matter when I'm gone, even it mattering means a bunch of hyper-educated
nerds (w/a positive connotation intended!!) write about something I did.

 

 

 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Daniel Harper
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 11:36 AM
To: Glenn Scheper; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: The Poetics of Transgression: Schizophrenia, Paranoia,

 

Just read this message. Could be a reasonable thing, if one is considering
that even with a tome as massive as GR, it's really only a thousand pages or
so. If one is reasonably plugged-in to the literary community, reading a
fifty twenty-page papers really isn't that hard to do, especially with an
older work or a work which is being rapidly discussed. 

I'd imagine you could fill small libraries with nothing but Shakespeare
scholarship, for instance. Yet the complete works fit into one
reasonably-sized volume....

--Daniel

On 5/18/07, Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:

> This was something I found very odd at the time of the London Pynchon
> week (some years ago now).  My first interface with serious literature
> students, and I was left with the impression that most read more 
> criticism than literature.

> Still don't really understand why..

I feel that in me. I surf for glosses all day, rarely read a work,
only when I realize a work is relevant to building my world-view. 

I think it also follows the TECHNOS versus SOPHOS difference.

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

 

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