Zapping Krap TV & Tunes in IV

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 09:37:16 CDT 2009


On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.

"... a jailhouse copy of The Varieties of Religious Experience, by
William James." (VL, Ch. 15, p. 369)

"James' version of pluralism, I want to argue, provides a .... useful
gloss on Pynchon's ontological practices and perspective ..."
(McClure, Partial Faiths, p. 34 ff.)

http://www.amazon.com/Partial-Faiths-Postsecular-Fiction-Morrison/dp/0820330337
("Look Inside")

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_557-587#Page_578



More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list