IVIV (0) This Lively Yarn

[Mark Kohut]

Wow. He sure does:  

And "yarn' carries lotsa meanings around twisted strands and interlocked fibers...."progressive knotting into"----GR

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GZEZ_en-GBUS287US287&q=define%3a+yarn


--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: IVIV (0) This Lively Yarn
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org, john.carvill at sap.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 8:03 AM
> 
> Pynchon and yarn-spinning:
>  
> From the blurb to 'Been Down So Long It Looks like Up to
> Me':
>  
> "In spinning his yarn he spins the reader as well, dizzily
> 
> into a microcosm that manages to be hilarious, chilling,
> sexy, 
> profound, maniacal, beautiful and outrageous all at the
> same 
> time."
>  
> From the blurb to 'My Escape from the CIA (And Other
> Improbable 
> Events)':
>  
> "He comes as close to the core of the business as anybody
> has, 
> because he is not only a writer with an enormous genius for
> 
> spinning a yarn, but also one whose fine ear is tuned both
> to 
> the reverberations of global history and to the secret
> whisperings 
> of the human spirit."
>  
> From the blurb to 'DeFord':
>  
> "What makes Shetzline's voice a truly original and
> important one 
> is the way he uses these interference-patterns to build his
> novel, 
> combining an amazing talent for seeing and listening with a
> 
> yarn-spinner's native gift for picking you up, keeping you
> in the 
> spell of the action, the chase, not letting go of you till
> you've 
> said, yes, I see; yes, this is how it is."
>  
> Also, recall how Slothrop inserted "fantasies into the
> yarns he 
> spun for Tantivy back in the ACHTUNG office" (GR, 302). And
> in V.,
> Victoria's uncle returns from Australia, "bringing no gifts
> but
> his wonderful yarns" (V., 72-73) - just one example of many
> in V. 
> where Pynchon speaks of yarns. Pynchon sure likes his
> yarns.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
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