Back to V., MB's structure post cont.

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 2, 2010, at 10:09 PM, Michael Bailey wrote:

> No-one expects the English Disquisition!
>
> We of the English Disquisition divide Romance into 2 main forms,  
> which recount with a straight face miraculous violations of natural  
> law: a secular form dealing with chivalry and knight-errantry, and a  
> religious form devoted to legends of saints, and a modern form which  
> places the action within not feudalism nor the eternal struggle for  
> holiness but within a recognizable if somewhat cynical version of  
> history as a classroom and its denizens as dunces...
>
> ...3 main forms, all of which incorporate incidents beyond  
> explanation by natural law: a secular form, a religious form, a  
> modern form, and a postmodern form which incorporates such elements  
> as the presence of references to the author within the text,  
> questionings of form, stylistic experiments, borrowings from  
> science, philosophy and other art forms, and detournement of  
> traditional narrative elements...
>
> 4 main forms, all of which refer with varying degrees of sincerity  
> to events which if we witnessed them rather than simply reading  
> about them we would consider miraculous and (most of us) dismiss via  
> Occam's Razor, but in reading about them we can envision them to  
> some extent and ponder the associated thoughts and lessons they  
> offer: a secular form, a religious form, a modern form, a postmodern  
> form, and a specifically Pynchonian form which in some respects has  
> grounded itself in and proceeded from the written legacy of the  
> exceptionally talented American writer, Henry Adams, but also shows  
> a talent for evoking feelings and the movements of the heart, a sly  
> (and yet, somehow kindly) wit, and an affinity for the combustion  
> byproducts of certain useful Substances...
>
> 5 main forms...
>
> Do you confess your heresies?
> Bring out the rack!

You are mak-ing muh seeek with - - what you call -- "Le grippe  
Espangnole?". nicht whar? This ees low, no?

But bay-four we co-comence with theese rrrrrrrrack!!! and p-p-p-p- 
press [gasp] the comfy cushions into theese comfy ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch  
[cough], barcalounger v musk hask

Just how many heresies are in V., anyway?

Note that the original author that cooked up the Borgesian Vheissu was  
also the "accidental" founder of the Rosicrucian movement.