ATD vs. V.? Overcoding or metaphor?

[Mark Kohut]

Inside the earth is in M & D as well....


--- On Wed, 9/24/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: ATD vs. V.? Overcoding or metaphor?
> To: "David Patty" <navan.ghee at gmail.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 12:16 PM
> i see the hollow earth as metaphoric of our inner selves, as
> one of its meanings.
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 9/24/08, David Patty
> <navan.ghee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: David Patty <navan.ghee at gmail.com>
> > Subject: ATD vs. V.? Overcoding or metaphor?
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Date: Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 11:01 AM
> > What do you kids make of Pynchon's return to the
> > Shaver-esque hollow earth
> > theory in 'ATD'?
> > 
> > Re-reading 'V.' (7:VIII) I was surprised to
> note
> > that he'd discussed it
> > before, albeit peripherally.  It's for entirely
> > different purposes in 'ATD'
> > than in 'V.', I think; *cf.* the Chums of
> > Chance's 'shortcut' through the
> > hollow earth, fending off Deros (cementing the
> association
> > w/ Shaver),
> > trying to escape out the other side before man's
> total
> > exploration of earth
> > invalidates yet-another fictional possibility***,
> whereas
> > in 'V.' Vheissu
> > seems to have been posited as merely one more theory
> for
> > the soup, something
> > to spice up the confusion.
> > 
> > * Pynchon's commentary on hard SF eroding
> > scientifiction?  Singling up all
> > lines / narrowing down of potentials / psychic
> > thermodynamism in-action, if
> > you'll pardon the pun... Also, *cf.* this
> allegorical
> > technique w/ Michael
> > Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius.
> > 
> > What do you-all think?  Did Pynchon see something
> > unexplored in the idea and
> > re-visit it, or--  as a certain wag on The Fictional
> Woods
> > might suggest
> > --did he forget having written about it altogether
> &
> > decide to tackle it
> > anew?  Not that anything's ever either/or...