V2, C3

[Mark Kohut]

Alice writes: 
The idea is actually a brilliant stroke when you consider, first, that
Henry Adams was an Adams and so were his father and his and his. Henry
was cut from the same cloth--a stencil if yiu will.

Now THAT is a brilliant insight, imho, and I cannot remember it being made as
cleanly as this by all the bloviaters................

(sorry to be such an obnoxious commentator on others' comments as I bloviate too 
much
on P as well....I'l get back on my meds.)


 


----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, July 12, 2010 11:19:05 AM
Subject: Re: V2, C3

The idea is actually a brilliant stroke when you consider, first, that
Henry Adams was an Adams and so were his father and his and his. Henry
was cut from the same cloth--a stencil if yiu will. There is a
wondeful part of The Education when Henry is dragged to school by the
President. Adams was not merely a name to live up to and in for Henry,
it was an abstraction, an idea, an institution. To work for one's
father, as P did, his father was an important enough man, though no
Adams, is an oedipal struggle even on the modern world, perhaps more
so.
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian Livingston  wrote:
>> I won't be able to access the internet until the sun hits my panels
>> tomorrow mid morning Pacific Time, so I thought I'd get these out
>> ahead of the schedule by just a bit. Then I have to get back to my
>> chores.
>>
>
> interesting life you lead!
>
>
>> (1) to echo Laura’s question, How closely are we to read the Stencil /
>> Henry Adams link?
>>
>
>
>
> first, it's kind of a droll idea, to take the Adams of the Education's
> way of referring to himself and apply it to a character: Bailey is
> relatively sure that Mr Adams didn't comport himself that way in the
> flesh...
>
> then, like so much in Pynchon, because he put elbow grease into
> writing these books,
> you notice the detail and research (I say, you, because quite often
> it's not me...I have a disturbing tendency to stop thinking after a
> couple of yuks)
>
> and then if one gets inspired to put some effort into reading, there's
> a magic eye effect
> of some kind that can be quite breathtaking
>
>
>
> --
> Yippy dippy dippy,
> Flippy zippy zippy,
> Smippy gdippy gdippy, too!
> - Thomas Pynchon ("'Zo Meatman's Gone AWOL")
>