[Mark Kohut]

The inferno is read around 10 times more than Paradiso...



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From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: robinlandseadel at comcast.net; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:23:19 AM
Subject: Re:

I think Pynchon does the icky better than the human in general

On 4/17/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Robin writes right on:
> Don't forget the author's concern that humans were giving up their
> human-ness and becoming more like machines. Entropy entered into this
> equation. "V." was quite concerned with that theme, as I recall. Vineland's
> concerned with it as well. And still, it's funny. "Vineland" is more like
> the work of a "self-recognized human" than "Gravity's Rainbow." But there's
> still the same—one might even say paranoid—themes.
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> After GR, Pynchon began to write more of what "the human' WAS, rather than
> what it wasn't. Agree?
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