After Tragedy: The Thomas Pynchon Scratchpad

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 18:25:00 CDT 2009


Dave Monroe wrote:
>. . .
>Posted by Joseph Kugelmass on 12/23/06 at 05:50 AM
>  . . . a plot about how Oedipa constructs meaning, even
>when she knows that the resolution of the mystery is also a moment of
>death:

Stencil attempts to construct meaning through hermeneutics.
The Whole Sick Crew carefully avoids such things.
"Remember that Puritans were utterly devoted, like literary critics, 
to the Word." 




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