COL49 - Chap 2: San Narciso as a circuit board

[Mark Kohut]

I see Pynchon (mostly) as fascinated by technology perhaps the way Milton
was said to be fascinated by Satan (In Paradise Lost), despite his good angels and God.

Or, he wrote his infernos first, then tried to flesh out his more paradisical visions of being human. 



----- Original Message ----
From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
To: nmaranca at gmail.com
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:23:18 AM
Subject: RE: COL49 - Chap 2: San Narciso as a circuit board


Natalia:

> In AtD there are elaborate descriptions of technology AND of characters and their psychological 
> conflicts... That's one of the reasons the book's so thick - Pynchon focuses on both themes, and 
> emphasizes the last one a lot more than he did in GR ou V.

Good point, and I think you're absolutely right that Pynchon wants to have it both ways in AtD. 
Still, I'd contend that the characters in AtD are much thinner than the main characters in VL and
M&D. Lake, for instance, is but a shallow version of Frenesi.
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