Ch 6 of V-2 Eeeeeeraaaaah, wutsupdoc?

Richard Fiero rfiero at gmail.com
Sun Aug 29 15:57:49 CDT 2010


Robin Landseadel wrote:
>On Aug 28, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
>. . .
>>I think part of that disengagement  is the failure of the Benny
>>Profane story. He just keeps insistently yo yoing , which, in a
>>second read  begins to feel like doing nothing( interestng that  one
>>Pynchon's rare essays is about sloth). Still, even Benny becomes  a
>>door into some interesting terrain, and subterrain.
>
>Like you said concerning Benny ProfaneĀ—his story is just a trifle
>cyclical? Static perhaps? Like nuthin' doin' nuthin'?

Static like Brownian motion or the Drunkard's 
Walk and in opposition to the highly directed and 
pointless efforts of Stencil. Entropy doesn't 
have a physical interpretation although it may 
appear that P has given it a couple, three. 




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