Pynchon on his characters
Keith
keithsz at mac.com
Sun May 17 14:00:52 CDT 2009
On May 17, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
... but Hollander is hardly making Pynchon rather than his texts "the
event." He's reading tehm--closley--alongside as close a reading as
is publically possible of Pynchon's personal, genalogical and
historical context ...
Yeah, I, too, lean towards the Joplin side of that argument. When
Raquel and I were in seminary school together we used to go round and
round about the Book of Revelation and whether or not this or that
was Authorial intent or was about Heilsgeschichte or drug induced
imagery or code for current events designed to get past Them for the
sake of Us. Pick a lens any lens, and the whole damned thing coughs
up evidence galore to support whichever. It's all part of the fun,
but when one gets all literal about it, it becomes our favorite
condition, the proverbial paranoia.
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