AtD, naming

[Bryan Snyder]

    7 What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

This is something I often think about when I mull over Pynchon¹s undeniable
(and to quote Charles Hollander [sp?]) ³presence of an absence²... Also
Dwight Eddins (The Gnostic Pynchon) relates the always missing part of
Pynchon¹s plots and the unfinished thoughts (always right to the ³ah-ha² and
teased with the dreaded (but so cool) ellipses to the metaxy...the cosmic
indifference... Etc...

Holy Center is ALWAYS APPROACHING... But never reached...

Silence is a big deal with Pynchon and I think sometimes the critics and
scholars forget about Ludwig... I admittedly do not understand Tractatus
that much... Those 3 ­ 6 sections are tough, but the 7th resonates still for
me.  

I think Pynchon purposely keeps silent (or un-names) some (all?) of the
greatest conundrums of being human for precisely the sort of
questions/comments Page speaks of.

Nice pull Page.
B




On 5/2/08 7:18 PM, "Page" <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:

>     7 What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

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