Pynchon's reply

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Otto" <ottosell at googlemail.com>
To: "Heikki Raudaskoski" <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:26 AM
Subject: Pynchon's reply


> I'm typing my ass off since yesterday and I can't tell the "i" from
> the "o" on the keyboard anymore...before it went out of order the
> scanner simply just left the rest of the text, the "Notes", and 'Works
> cited' unscanned so I have to type it down.
>
> Got to work tonight so I don't know but if I make it today but by
> tomorrow the plain text without the footnotes should be available
> here:
>
> http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/magiceye.htm
> (I've just uploaded what I've got until know, please check again the next 
> days)
>
> I don't know what you mean by "monereductive"

Never heard the term before but it must mean reducing something to one.

One idea
One goal
One cause
One method
One price

The word would be closely akin to just plain "reductive," wouldn't it?

I'd say Pynchon strives NOT to be monoreductive.



P
 but to me Charles
> Hollander's essay "Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic Eye Views of The
> Crying of Lot 49" isn't more speculative than most of the other stuff
> at the "Pynchon Notes" or here at *this* place.
>
> Otto
>
> 2009/5/19 Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>:
>>
>>
>> Is "Pynchon, JFK and the CIA" available online anymore?
>>
>> Would just like to check if the article is as monoreductive as I
>> recall; as E.D. Hirschian as I recall.
>>
>> I've got nothing against Chuck Hollander, personally. Met him in
>> passing at the Valletta conference and found him a most likeable,
>> well, dude.
>>
>>
>> Heikki
>>