Back to the Future

[Mr Haney]

I have to respond to this thread, apparently
(keep trying to close the browser and can't)
 
will be brief!
 
1) a history of the Pynchon family actually
might sell pretty well.  I'd buy one.
 
2) what is wrong with research being an exercise?
Exercise is good for you.
 
there. see. no obfuscation.  (I'll double up on it next post)
> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net> To: pynchon-l at waste.org> Subject: Re: Back to the Future> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:12:12 +0000> > Paul Mackin:> Seems to me however from the way Robin has > described it that the object of the exercise would > be to try in some way to tie various "disinheritances" > and losses within the pages of the novels to > Pynchon & Company losses, George M.'s losses, > Tom's losses, other P losses.> > This is not an exercise. There is no single volume of the> 'The Pynchons, from William to Thomas R.', there is no text> entitled "Pynchon & Company", there is no book out there that > records the up and down curve of this obviously influential family> or the up and down curve of Pynchon & Company. It's necessary> American history. Cooking up the first book to be ceremonially burned > on these shores is a historic event of great enough significance as to > demand proper documentation. The Waste Doctrine and its evolution> derserves a text of its own. We've got one useless lit-crit dissembly> after another, pure mantric gobbledy-goop and unreadable riffs on > Po-Mo cuckoo-cloud incomprehensibilities, when a twenty page > exegesis on Pynchon v. Stearns would tell us more than a decade's > worth of pontification on signifiers and signification. Who are these > Pynchons? What "Stearns" are we talking about? What is the long term > significance of the Waste Doctrine? How does the Springfield Amory > or the Springfield Aquaducts play upon these stories? Why all these> defense contracts? Why all these spys? Why all this encryption?> The article that started this thread---"Back to the Future"---goes on> and on how disconnected everything is in Against the Day. I'm pointing > out what should have been figured out as the obvious connections by now.> > And I won't know the real purpose of the 'Excercise' till I read the history.> Who knows where the hell we'll end up? It sure ain't gonna be "Pynchons > good guys, everybody else bad guys", it just ain't gonna shake out that > way, sorry. There was a time they were members of the Elect, you know.> And Friend Tom ain't exactly 'Lost'. Oh, and by the way, thanks Paul for > Tommy Boy's Genealogical link: http://tinyurl.com/ehgqn> > That'll ought to save me loads of time.
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