paranoia ( Contemporary Novelists, 6th ed.)

[rich]

I think Pynchon stepped away from that all consuming paranoia after
Lot 49 in that the anti-paranoia tho glancingly mentioned in that book
finds full flower in GR, that nothing is ultimately connected and that
is a state us poor schlubs can't handle for too long and therefore
build our own rocket god, we ourselves in a sort of sexual love, yes,
with our own death, and longing for that instant after the last delta
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or maybe thats just what they want us to think  ;)

rich

On 7/10/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> The question alone sends one into ever deepening spirals of fear:  What if
> I'm not really paranoid?  What if they're only making me think I'm paranoid?
>  I am paranoid.  What if ...
>
> Isn't this exactly Oedipa's state at the end of the book?
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>
>>
>>
>>What is the difference between paranoia and the suspicion of it?
>>
>>--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Contemporary Novelists, 6th ed.
>>> To: "Robin Landseadel" <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 12:25 AM
>>> Paranoia, or the suspicion of it, is
>>> not uncommon in the world.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Robin
>>> Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Jul 8, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Paranoia, or the suspicion of it, is not uncommon
>>> in the world of
>>> >> Pynchon's novels.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Paranoia, or the suspicion of it, is not uncommon in
>>> the world of dope
>>> > smokers and acid heads. Not that there's anything
>>> wrong with that . . .
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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