NP but influenced by fer sure

[Paul Mackin]

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From: "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: NP but influenced by fer sure


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> ----- 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?
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> Seems to be about the real disease, not the literary. social or political 
> possibilities therof.
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> I'm 50 pages to go however.
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> Will let you know.
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> P
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OK, finished it.

Nothing much Pynchonian except much of it takes place underground namely in 
the NY subway.

On the trains, in the tunnels (both off and on the trains), on the 
platforms, even in the disused City Hall station.

An awful lot takes place in the disconnected thoughts of a poor sufferer off 
his meds.

Once worked with such people off their meds because there weren't any yet.

P.








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