IVIV Hope Harlingen: ( spoilers)

[Michael Bailey]

Tore Rye Andersen:
>
> Pynchon and others like him, according to McLaughlin, don't merely
> point at themselves: they point at themselves pointing at the world.

it's like the "hipster" motif in GR, where "hipsters" know about atomic fission
and are already making jokes about it ("critical mass" - which could also
be a ceremonial celebration of critics, come to think of it)

> So Pynchon's fiction points at itself, yes, but it also points at the world.
> I guess I'm just more interested in the finger pointing at the world.
>
> McLaughlin makes his points in the essay "Post-Postmodern Discontent:
> Contemporary Fiction and the Social World," Symploke, 12.1-2 (2004), 53-68.
>

and Pynchon's extended middle finger graphic makes a similar point in GR...



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