The precultural paradigm of expression in the works of Pynchon

[Michael Bailey]

rich  wrote:
> haha. but the joke is really on english depts at university
>
>

or, it's aimed at theory practitioners...but it's that sort of barbed
humor that isn't all that jolly.

Let's say we take a number of stock phrases from medicine, physics or
math and jumble them up.

Would the resulting gibberish prove anything at all about medicine,
physics or math?  Nah.  It might
be good for a laugh, because nonsense is always kind of fun, it
derails the left brain from being so
fascist and insistent on meaning (kind of like pot does) - but it
isn't legitimate satire at all.

just because I'm always harping on story and good yarns & stuff
doesn't mean I sympathize with
iconoclasm toward lit theory.  In fact, looking at the extracts, I
noticed a few phrases that I'd like
to know more about.


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- "The whole point of life is to have a story" - Jeremy Cioara