The Ampersand and the Capital

[Mark Kohut]

YEA!....Can't wait to read more self-fellatio....oops, I mean on linear (self-) "filiation", of course.

He could have had a simple, maybe real, insight, imho: text itself had more 'character' then.....

--- On Fri, 11/6/09, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> From: malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: The Ampersand and the Capital
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 10:34 PM
> <<In his historical novel Mason
> & Dixon (1997), Thomas Pynchon uses the
> very materiality of letters to convey some of his major
> preoccupations,
> and this in at least two ways. The ampersand on the cover
> plays on the
> opposition between curves and straight lines at the core of
> the novel,
> but also announces a deep interrogation on filiation which
> climaxes at
> the end of the book. The innumerable capital letters
> unsettle the
> rectilinear typography and, through the syntactic
> ambiguities they
> create, disrupt the very linearity of reading." >>
> 
> Oh boy; let's hear more from this guy ... particularly on
> the deep interrogation on filiation which climaxes --
> CLIMAXES! --- at the end of the book ...
> 
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