IV Killing Puck

[Mark Kohut]

Which is why it doesn't apply. 

--- On Tue, 12/15/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IV Killing Puck
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 4:11 PM
> In this classic work, often described
> as "The History of the Rise,
> Decline, and Fall of the Love Affair," Denis de Rougemont
> explores the
> psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to
> Hollywood.
> At the heart of his ever-relevant inquiry is the
> inescapable conflict
> in the West between marriage and passion--the first
> associated with
> social and religious responsiblity and the second with
> anarchic,
> unappeasable love as celebrated by the troubadours of
> medieval
> Provence. These early poets, according to de Rougemont,
> spoke the
> words of an Eros-centered theology, and it was through this
> "heresy"
> that a European vocabulary of mysticism flourished and that
> Western
> literature took on a new direction.
> 
> Bringing together historical, religious, philosophical, and
> cultural
> dimensions, the author traces the evolution of Western
> romantic love
> from its literary beginnings as an awe-inspiring secret to
> its
> commercialization in the cinema. He seeks to restore the
> myth of love
> to its original integrity and concludes with a
> philosophical
> perspective on modern marriage.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:09 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Romance in the Western World. A Pynchon source. The
> Zoyd and Hector
> > partnership is obviously the closest to these two in
> IV. As I said, we
> > can read Bigfoot's love for his dead partner as a
> courtly love. That
> > is, it is idealized because it is dead, like chivalry.
> Mark D.
> > Hawthorne has traced P's homoerotic "continuum" from
> the Slow Learner
> > tales to the novels...jargon and buttercups and
>  whatknots to plow
> > through, but worth putting on a baseball cap for.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Robin Landseadel
> > <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >> "It was a romance over the years at least as
> persistent as Sylvester and
> >> Tweety's."
> >>
> >> On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:50 PM, alice wellintown
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'ts more dialectic than debate; more
> conversation than argument. We
> >>> can discard the word "partner" if that helps
> us to improve our reading
> >>> of the relationship.
> >>
> >>
> >
>