Pondering an M&D road trip...

[Mark Kohut]

yes, P seems to have more of that old-fashioned 'wit'...that might be more British; that is surely of the past..say, the Augustan age? 

A-and, T.S. Eliot wrote of the 'metaphysical wit' of poets such as Donne...yoking together wildly disparate concepts....(for Donne, one example, the body of his beloved with---blasphemy coming!---the Beatific
Vision).............

Pynchon's over-the-top 'yokings' are of of the same kind, yes?  (I mean
Byron the Bulb?....the Giant Adenoid....The balloon boys and the World's Fair...........the Q-weapon and modernity..........Ferris wheels and mandalas, and on and on) 




--- On Wed, 7/16/08, Guy Ian Scott Pursey <g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Guy Ian Scott Pursey <g.i.s.pursey at reading.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: Pondering an M&D road trip...
> To: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 8:20 AM
> I think that might be one of the many things that turned me
> on to
> Pynchon when I started - the humour seemed to be somehow...
> British? I
> don't that I can explain what a British sense of humour
> is or how it
> contrasts with American humour - perhaps it's more
> surreal and wildly
> sarcastic whereas American humour seems to be by contrast
> both more
> deadpan and more sincere...?
> 
> Err... Anyway! Veering massively off-topic a-and now
> approaching
> controversial territory. What was it the Captain Zhang said
> about
> drawing lines and Bad History?
> 
> Guy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Henry
> Sent: 15 July 2008 17:05
> To: 'Pynchon Liste'
> Subject: RE: Pondering an M&D road trip...
> 
> Guy, your post kicked me in the keister! I'm now
> thinking about
> Anglophilia
> in Pynch-Lit (Maybe I'll go back to school some day and
> actually write a
> paper!  Nah.  Doubt it.).
> 
> Slothrop et al in LONDON!  The Candy Drill!  A-and
> Anglophile Japanese
> fellow from Hiroshima on the boat in GR!  TWITS!  Mason and
> Dixon!  The
> list
> goes on!  Why, P's books are almost as much of Brit as
> Yank!
> 
> Henry Mu
> Information, Media, and Technology Consultant
> 
>  http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Could we snip things a little for the sake of indexing and
> our
> lower-speed
> Internet comrades?