ATD the Chums etc.

[Joseph Tracy]

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>> Yes, I think the whole ending of AtD, as we have all discussed
>> and some agree, given the time in History and the way TRP ends it
>> is (at least) about hisotircal progress---or lack of same.
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> The chums make progress but it is mythical/fanciful.
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> The Traverses don't move the revolution along but keep the hope  
> alive. They are one of the (mostly) happy families that are all alike.
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> No need to unify or totalize the various elements
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I am not seeing so much historical  progress as the progress of a  
dissident and more humane worldview. This offers only a glimmer of  
hope against a terrifying historical momentum in which war and the  
cultural colonialism that accompanies it continues as the dominant  
paradigm. In a book by a single author it seems to me as reasonable  
to assume a totality or unity of the various elements as not.  I  
obviously am inclined to do so.
  If Tom Pynchon would answer some of these questions would it settle  
the disputes? Kinda doubt it. Probably step on one or 2 of every P  
head's toes though.

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>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 10:34:41 AM
>> Subject: Re: AtD post...the Chums, misc. and even more misc
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