P-Lit>GR!

[Ian Livingston]

I'd cast my lot with a new reading of V.  

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From: Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling <scuffling at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:44:31 AM
Subject: Re: P-Lit>GR!

I like those thoughts, (I presume) Real Ian.  That said, I find V the
most difficult of Pynchon's books.

I would appreciate it if the next book we reread on the P-Liste is V.

AsB4,
Henry Mu
http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm

On 4/24/08, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> It all begins with V.  All the books allude back to V. somewhere in their
> chapters.  I think the V motif / metaphor is fundamental to TRP's game.  I'm
> just starting to follow the perspectives, but it seems to fit, somehow.  As
> if V were lead and mercury, GR the forge (oven), etc....  (I'm still
> re-reading.)  An alchemical thing.  I keep coming back to the conclusion of
> AtD as a purification of sorts, an arrival at some sublime state where it's
> okay just to be sort of common, somehow.  That the true gold, the
> philosopher's stone is no big deal.  Just open hands entering the
> marketplace (as per the Zen ox-herding pictures) where people chop wood,
> carry water.  But I must emphasize that I do not think we are observing from
> within this perspective.  Rather I think we are observing what this
> perspective looks like objectively.  And allow me the pun, GR soars when I
> view it in these terms.






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