Wheat, chaff, stalks, seeds

[Mark Kohut]

And, to support some reality like this, there is something we have been discovering as we read: lotsa echoes, foreechos of GR, Vineland second, Lot 49 decently sounded in counternotes, maybe, M & D and ATD very light in the echo sounding board---as I think of this read anyway. Others see it differently.

So, combined with my pet theory: He was writing ATD at least from when he finished GR..................................  

--- On Sun, 10/25/09, Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Clément Lévy <clemlevy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Wheat, chaff, stalks, seeds
> To: kelber at mindspring.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, October 25, 2009, 7:29 PM
> I like this theory too! We know
> Pynchon said he was working on a few novels at a time
> Clement
> Le 25 oct. 09 à 23:34, kelber at mindspring.com
> a écrit :
> 
> > I'll toss in my own completely unsupported pet
> theory:  Back in the early 70s, when Pynchon was
> working on GR he thought it would be fun to write a
> Chandler-type novel with his hippies and stoner friends as a
> cast of characters.  Maybe even took a couple of plot
> notes.  Never got around to writing it, but after
> finishing his major opus, ATD, gave himself permission to
> have a little fun.  I'm sure he had a blast writing
> it.
> > 
> > Laura
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> >> Sent: Oct 25, 2009 5:49 PM
> >> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >> Subject: Re: Wheat, chaff, stalks, seeds
> >> 
> >> On Oct 25, 2009, at 1:59 PM, alice wellintown
> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> How do these conjectures account for _Against
> the Day_? Was the author
> >>> without age or wisdom when  he wrote and
> published his last Romance?
> >>> Also, if the novel is an imperfect form for
> conveying moral truths,
> >>> the Romance is, while by design less perfect
> than the imperfect novel,
> >>> a better form if one's objective is to convey
> the blackest truths in
> >>> the darkest heart of Man. So, with _AtD_, P's
> unloadings of layered
> >>> stuff doesn't break the reader-writer
> contract; we get what we
> >>> deserve, if not exactly what we expect. As far
> as a book that appeals
> >>> to a larger audience goes, it seems this is
> exactly what he tried to
> >>> do. Let us pray he never attempts this trick
> again; it's dangerous.
> >>> And, beside(s) the point to booot [sic].
> >> 
> >> So let me get this straight, did you come here for
> the argument clinic
> >> or was it abuse?
> > 
> 
> 
>