IVIV (1)

[Mark Kohut]

"Mercy, mercy, mercy" as Cannonball Adderley is always saying. 

TRPs vision of human compassion is always there as well. Most overt and with the most detail, in AtD. We've all pointed to it in the AtD group read.

--- On Wed, 8/19/09, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV (1)
> To: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Cc: "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com>, "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 9:40 AM
> > I look at it this way: I wonder
> why Pynchon does--or, at any rate,
> > writes, God know what he does--anything that he does.
>  VL, M&D and AtD
> > rarely if ever had the nigh unto nonstop "what could
> possibly have
> > provoked that?" moments the Lot 49 and GR still and
> likely will always
> > hold for me
> 
> I know what you mean. Then again, lets take M&D as an
> example. Is not
> the bravura literary feat Pynchon pulled off not 'what
> provoked that'
> enough? IN a different way, I could say the same of ATD .
> 
> > The wuestion then is,
> > have perhaps T. 'n' R.perceived Pynchon's purpose,
> 
> Have they shite!
> 
> > T., and even, perhaps, Robt., will continue to clarify
> what I've been
> > taking as their dual Nietzchean assault on received
> (they would argue,
> > i think, desired) wisdom  in re; Pynchon's
> preterite, who I THINK
> > they've been reading all these yarin as pointed
> exemplars of Friedrich
> > N.'s posited "slave mentality."  Less mercy, they
> say, not more, they
> > say Pynchon sez, our liberally bleeding hearts be
> damned, but ...
> >
> 
> What's this 'continue to' clarify? I see no clarification.
> I have
> heard a lot of hints, from some people, of  'oh if
> only you understood
> Pynchon like I understand Pynchon...', but as you yourself
> recently
> pointed out, these people seldom if ever seem to, like, get
> to,
> y'know, the point, man?
> 
> If their 'reading' of Pynchon is as you describe above,
> that Pynchon
> is calling for less rather than more mercy, some sort of
> sadomasochistic neocon bullshit, then that can only be down
> to some
> sort of mental illness or drugs or both.
> 
>