Pynchon, Prescience, and Stockhausen

[Mark Kohut]

Seconded as I wrote Jill........

A-and........her last ob---like unto Oedipa---resonates with my inchaote notion
that C Of L49 is, among much else, a portrait of the artist discovering his ....subject?

Mark




----- Original Message ----
From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: grladams at teleport.com
Cc: markekohut at yahoo.com; scuffling at gmail.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:57:04 PM
Subject: Re: Pynchon, Prescience, and Stockhausen

On Feb 12, 2008 12:41 PM, grladams at teleport.com <grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
>
>
> so instead for me, I note how this great literature transcends for me to a
> place i'd call a lens. how many times have i read a piece of history or
> article from a magazine, and then reflect on it within his writings? Causes
> me to read biographies and histories of transportation and commerce I
> wouldn't have noticed before. Brings me into a curiosity one can compare
> with Oedipa's in COL49,
>______________
I think is a wonderful insight--reading Pynchon made me aware of and
interested in so many diverse topics, and encouraged lots of free-time
reading of things I would never have read about.

The only other writer who I have experienced this with has been William Gaddis

Rich


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