TRP-related (by me at least)..from a review

[rich]

its pretty obvious in AtD I should think.

what got on my nerves is all those main characters for the most part exhibit
that
oh-so-sexy-and-smart-and-brave-easy-with-a-quip/rejoinder-and-righteous-free-hippie-anarchist-bullshit
ad infinitum.

my god, the man has become so melodramatic. eesh...

I would argue that when Pynchon decides to bring things down to the human
level, relationships and all that shit, he becomes rather boring

but what the fuck do I know


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> As plist collective wisdom has smartly argued, figuring out "pynchon's
> politics" may be a mug's game.
>
> But What We--America, The West---have lost, seen so lyrically and
> interestingly, even as political possiblity, even as a direction of
> capitalism possibility, may be an overarching theme from a NOVELIST not any
> political/social prescriber....................
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 7:54:29 AM
> Subject: TRP-related (by me at least)..from a review
>
>     The Big Short by Michael Lewis is "an indictment of shareholder driven
> capitalism". As soon as partnership was replaced by investor money, it
> became a casino.
>
> I would argue that one of the meanings of the casino (and Vegas in IV?) in
> AtD is captured in the above....Pynchon satirizes society for losing its
> human scale most.
>
>
>
>
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