Challenge post

[Mark Kohut]

we ARE light-years ahead of 'understanding', exploring sources and allusions, and associations for AtD....compared to GR one year later..........light-years in an apt metaphor.
   
  Trust me on this.
   
  And, yes, why not more full length books on TRPs oeuvre?....I have wondered myself........
  must say something about the change in the Academy.....and the time it is taking to 
  'see him whole".....

rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
  >
> Probably, it'll most likely turn out to a 4-D diorama of upper level maths.
>
> Yeahp, we are all "just speculating since we aren't OBA......But
>
> shouldn't More Speculate?
>
> Yes, and I do get a sense than there's a certain amount of wear and
> fatigue, but it does seem there's a content/comment ratio that lines up.
> Let's not kid ourselves, you have to be some kind of nut case to read
> something this thick in this much detail. >
> ---------------------------
I wonder, why not? AtD has been out less than a year; I'm sure comment
on GR circa 1974 was just as baffling to many. it's gonna take time. I
am somewhat perplexed why there were many overarching studies of the
early trilogy of novels--V, 49, GR. and not much since--studies
viewing Pynchon's work as a whole--Vineland, M&D, and AtD seem to lend
themselves to such a study and then a study for all 6--that's what I'm
hoping for over the next few years at least.

Rich


       
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