The Influence of Pynchon's Paranoia or Postulations for Paranoid

[Mark Kohut]

The subtle "buried' themes in Against the Day will take us almost as long  to get as it took us to get "Hamlet"...which we are still getting.

Above, below and the animated world has barely been commented on re AtD.



--- On Tue, 8/4/09, Nushra MohamedKhan <nushramkhan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Nushra MohamedKhan <nushramkhan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: The Influence of Pynchon's Paranoia or Postulations for Paranoid
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 4:16 PM
> > that's the problem--its a
> shallow argument, and painfully obvious.
> 
> Not the problem, but the point. The point is that what was
> once novel
> is now old hat. Pynchon was once out on the edge of a
> paranoid post
> World War II American Literature that "inspired" a
> generation of
> artists and academics, but now his themes are painfully
> obvious.
> 
> 
> >
> > We are obliged to Scout; to see the World from
> > inside another man's skin. Otherwise, we just gonna
> kill off all the
> > Mockingbirds and sit around making up gothic tales
> about a Man we
> > think is a Ghost. We gotta go to the Black Church. We
> gotta sit up
> > there with the Black Folk during the Trial.
> 
> Sorry, this is allusion to Harper Lee's _To Kill a
> Mockingbird_; a
> timless novel that preaches lessons but never offends the
> reader.
>