Kick-Ass Thank You

[Mark Kohut]

Ande,
   
  Yes, yes....I was struggling to see and say stuff like this.....reading V., thinking of so many 'social' encounters--a recent wedding, for example---where nobody wanted to know anything more than they already knew about each other---AND THAT THAT WAS FINE AND a great time was had by all.......
   
  TRP knew/knows that this is our modern life.........
   
  Mark
  

Ande <andekgrahn at olympus.net> wrote:
  
What makes Pynchon Pynchon (for me) and keeps me reading, is that many
of his characters aren't "examined" , often aren't much deeper than the
pun in their name, of their role in moving the plot or directing me

towards the next rabbit hole. I am sort of tired of the examined life, 
of memoirs, or journalling. In my big messy sprawling life, I don't 
need to "understand the motivation" of most of the people I meet--I am 
not a therapist--I love imagining motivation and backstory, but I rarely 
am interested in having it told to me....so Pynchon works for me---the 
size of all his stories is deceptive, they are Huge books with lots of 
pages, and that is only the beginning, like a transformer toy, these 
huge books unfold and expand and become even bigger, sending me 
backwards and forwards through time, around the globe, and down 
aforementioned rabbit holes (or into the centre of the earth,) leaving 
untold stories in it's titanic wake...iceberg abound. I don't want 200 
pages of character development in the way of my story--we wouldn't get 
nearly as far...or to nearly as many interesting places.

Ande

(Ande, Jasper, I flagged you initial post, two weeks ago, laying out how 
you intended to host, and I intend to use it whole to guide my own 
efforts later this Summer. Thank you,)

Jasper wrote:

>
> I am curious why there were only a couple of comments on the last two 
> questions about character motivations and psychology (Why Lake + 
> Deuce, and why Lake thinks she's "bad"). 
> a) The text is too cryptic to understand character motivations
> b) The text is too brief to really discuss anything about the characters
> c) Pynchon's characters aren't traditional characters so we shouldn't 
> treat them that way
> d) It's a big complex book and I haven't gotten a handle on it yet
> e) The answers were obvious and the questions pointless
> f) The list is not a safe enough environment for offering readings 
> that others may consider wrong or silly or unsupportable
> g) Other -- fill in the space provided:






       
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