Zapping Krap TV & Tunes in IV

[Mark Kohut]

My 2 penny-weights:

A profoundly pluralistic universe, in a phrase that may have first been made 'famous' by William James, IS another major theme of AtD, I sez.

--- On Wed, 8/19/09, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Zapping Krap TV & Tunes in IV
> To: "alice wellintown" <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 9:54 AM
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:42 PM,
> alice
> wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Brian McHale is one of the best readers of Postmodern
> fiction. Even if
> > one asserts that Pynchon doesn't write Postmodern
> fiction or that the
> > term Postmodern is not a useful one, it's still not
> possible to argue
> > that Brian McHale is one of the best readers of
> Pynchon's fiction....
> 
> From John A. McClure, Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction
> in the Age
> of Pynchon and Morrison (Athens: U of Georgia P, 1997), Ch.
> 1,
> "Ontological Pluralisms and Preterite Spiritualities::
> Thomas
> Pynchon," pp. 26-61:
> 
> "What is left largely unexplained [by McHale] ... is the
> possibility
> that at least some postmodernists might be seriously
> engaged in
> challenging secular constructions of reality and
> entertaining the idea
> of a profoundly pluralistic universe." (p. 28)
> 
> http://www.ugapress.org/0820330329.html
> http://books.google.com/books?id=VsQZBL9fWegC
>