The precultural paradigm of expression in the works of Pynchon

[alice wellintown]

I admire MLK, Frederick Douglass, Ali, X, Thoreau, Gandhi, Wilde,
Mandela, and Bertrand Russell. Ex-cons all. Russell, a great man of
letters made important contributions to math and philosophy, politics
and sociology, and he won the Nobel for Literature (no prize, alas, is
given for Philosophy). He wrote an excellent book on Einstein's
Relativity and Special Theory; _The ABC of Relativity_.  I recommend
it, if for no other reason that that he sets us in a balloon and drugs
us to explain how our physical bodies, our human senses, and our
Newtonian ideas may get in the ay of our understanding what Einstein
did. Russell could write for many different audiences. He wrote
popular philosophy and books on friendship and marriage and happiness.
He could also write a critical philosophical article, critical of some
arcane and abstruse statement on happiness as defined by Aristotle. He
could not, however, avoid big words or complex or compound sentences
or complex ideas. He could, I suspect, have avoided quips and puns and
silly phrases, but I'm glad he didn't.
Recently I recommended william h. gass's _finding a form_, and much of
it is silly and convoluted and drop the book on the floor and walk
about and wonder. gass, i've read, labors hard to produce his work.
would that it would flow like sap from a tree, but we can not all be
bl;essed with Shakespeare's genius and Keats's full throated ease. so
[she] b/g[l]lows