airships, vain attempt to elaborate bonsai metaphor

[Michael Mr Haney Bailey]

From: monte.davis



Mark Kohut sez:
 
 >  is this 'existential' terror--this pampas openness--- something we just have to live with in TRPs  vision? 
 
   Damfino. Nor do I insist that he know. It's a vision, not a theory or philosophy or platform, despite our valiant efforts to bonsai it.
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How about this: individual vs nature, and individual vs society, are recurrent themes in 
literature...holding the mirror up to a life full of such circumstances...
as are the cost of progress and the noble savage...
"something's lost and something's gained in living every day"
 
on a "virgin-ears" basis, setting allusiveness to "negligible", just using the
denotations and sounds of the words, and the movements of the plot and characters
as they seem compared to one's own experience...
for me anyway, the P oeuvre stacks up pretty well here
(ie, reading as if he's the only or first writer)
 
but, one's thoughts and emotions having been tugged and teased
by various writers, and gelled and combed and blow-dried by teachers
if one's lucky, one's approach is even more pleasurable...
 
and if my erudition were up to it, I could go on and on about how
the text rocks and rolls with very many ideas....
but a very different question would be, which of these are original with P?
 
I'd stake my reputation as a critic (or even, stake something that's
actually worth something, like 3 bottles that could be traded in for nickels)
that the Pynchon treatment of ideas is as deft as any anybody's ever done...
 
but I'm thinking maybe there are actually a couple things we will
sift out of ATDTDA that are actually unique-to-P...
 
not exactly what I wanted to write, actually I was trying to roll on furthur with
the "bonsai" metaphor...but ended up with a hairstylist conceit instead...
(remember the Little Rascals episode where the kid with the cowlick
keeps singing "I am the barber of Seville?"
 
tomorrow: I will look up some of the historical references of robinlandseadel
 
 
 
 
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