Young P's conservative (Cc atholic) view of Love in the Western World

[Mark Kohut]

Herzog wrote Heidegger: 'Dear Herr Mister Professor Heidegger,
"Where exactly were we standing when we Fell-Into-Being?"

I ask: Dear Ms. Lila (with an L) V. !!! Graves (Really? This is NOT a Pynchon 
pseudonym?) and Herr Sir Williams: 

"Where exactly is the value of "the Formal expression in art of destructive 
passion" in "V"? 



 


----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Williams <daveuwilliams at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sun, September 5, 2010 5:56:47 PM
Subject: Young P's conservative (Cc atholic) view of Love in the Western World

Slade suggests that P's parody of Adams and Stencil questions the Romantic view 
of the world. But in 


" Love and the Western World of Pynchon's "V." " Lila V. Graves argues 
that young P's views are rather like De Rougemont's; neither sees and end to 
Western Culture; both argue that Western Cult can be saved by asserting two 
cardinal human values. Fidelity and the Formal expression in art of destructive 
human passion. 



Maybe this is what turns readers off to V.?