Another way to categorize TRPs oeuvre

[Ian Livingston]

Yes.  It is the same with life itself, both individual and collective,
subjective and objective:  it is, ultimately, irreducible.  We can look at
portions, but they remain portions of the whole.  We cannot successfully
argue that the whole is defined by any set of its parts.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Accepted. With my necesary proviso: it illumines the world not itself.
>
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> --- On Fri, 10/10/08, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Another way to categorize TRPs oeuvre
> > To: markekohut at yahoo.com
> > Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 3:18 PM
> > How about the novel as an irreducible work of art?  It seems
> > to me that P
> > has taken the evolution of the novel to the next step
> > beyond storytelling
> > into true fine art.  Only a critic would be dumb enough to
> > try and reduce it
> > to terms other than its own.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Mark Kohut
> > <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The World History novels. A trilogy.
> > > "V."
> > > "Gravity's Rainbow"
> > > "Against the Day"
> > >
> > > The contemorary (or recent past) American novels
> > >
> > > --  "C of Lot 49"
> > > ----"Vineland"
> > > ----new one
> > >
> > > The historical American novel
> > > ---Mason & Dixon
> > >
> > > If we believe, as I do from external info, that TRP
> > was working on ATD
> > > for a long time---since finishing GR, maybe---then he
> > has alternated,
> > > roughly, the World Historical novels with the American
> > novels.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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