Headbanger's Ball: Thomas Pynchon & Primo Levi

[Mark Kohut]

some OK obs are totally vitiated by calling Pynchon's words (as books) "phallic"....

Sorry, that is a profound misuse.........and insults the feminine vision in TRP/


--- On Wed, 8/6/08, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Headbanger's Ball: Thomas Pynchon & Primo Levi
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 12:32 PM
> If one were to create a dialectic simply by banging two
> writers' heads
> together, its success would hinge on those writers being
> dissimilar
> enough to create a fruitfully unlikely synthesis. I think
> that in
> Thomas Pynchon and Primo Levi, we have two such writers. No
> one, to my
> knowledge, has compared them before, and for good reason:
> they are
> complete opposites....
> 
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