Can we find idealism in Pynchon's oevre?

[David Morris]

In GR it's that albatross feather Slothrop holds on to, like Dumbo's
magic feather.

On 10/5/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes, we can, Yes, Yes...and we have been.
>
> Shambala.
>
> A world like (parts of) the Past......trees, stones, wind, an Earth almost
> alive, an inner earth [ M & D ] full of wonders......some tenderness, some
> love, some grace.....
>
> Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> O yes, Samuel Beckett.......OPTIMIST!
>
> Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> But Magnus Eriksson, literary critic for Svenska Dagbladet, strongly
> disagrees: "The academy is totally apolitical. Their decisions are
> well-founded and they consider literary merit only. If politics influenced
> them, V.S. Naipul would never have won." He explains some of the
> non-laureates: "Joseph Conrad was never Nobelized because the academy was
> scrupulously following the instructions in Nobel's will, that the
> recipient's work should have an idealistic direction." Conrad, like Thomas
> Hardy, was too dark, too pessimistic.
>
> http://www.thelocal.se/8677/
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