NP but influenced by fer sure

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:38 PM
Subject: NP but influenced by fer sure


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> LOWBOY by John Wray(promising Granta writer under 40)...new generally 
> acclaimed novel.
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> Protagonist is a genuine (diagnosed--harmful to others) Paranoid 
> Schizophrenic who rides the NY subway
> back and forth with obsessive awareness of it.
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> p. 3 "signs and tells were all around him"
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> Soon, the fact of a 'revelation' appears in the text.
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> Ouroborous and open vs. self-contained system (to describe the subway 
> system).
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> For your own self-esteem and nothing more, name couple-three books by 
> which writer that have influenced John Wray's LOWBOY.
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> I have not read a review. Any of our sharpest critics make the Pynchon 
> connections?

Seems to be about the real disease, not the literary. social or political 
possibilities therof.

I'm 50 pages to go however.

Will let you know.

P
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