To Be REAL or not to Be Real (Allegorical hands that turn the time)

[Phillip Grayson]

so, um, why is _The Education_ so much simpler and more accommodating for
critics than V.?





On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Dave Williams <daveuwilliams at yahoo.com>wrote:

> To point to the Real or Not Real is not the question. Who decides what is
> real and what is an illusion? How does P apply what he learned from Adams?
> This is the key. Yes, it's that important to the current discussion of how
> young P developed to the P of GR because control of the historical process,
> what Wicks Cherrycoke tells the children in America (this is KEY--in
> America), must be countered by,  ROMANCE.
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>  "We have, then, with Adams and Nietzsche, a common prognosis of a
> nihilistic future, and two diverging reactions that may be roughly
> characterized as Apollonian rejection and Dionysian embrace.
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> Both reactions are incorporated into Pynchon's work, where they correspond
> roughly to a humanity-centered norm without effective defenders and to the
> dehumanizing forces and/or conspiracies that besiege it.
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> Yet another antithesis that correlates with these reactions is that between
> the scenario of an existential wasteland that is prey only to a growing
> spiritual emptiness and entropy's indifferent ravagings, and the scenario of
> a world in the grip of fanatical cabals that seek control of the historical
> process.
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> It would not be an unfair summation of Pynchon's development to say that he
> moves from the scenario in his early short stories to the most urgent
> consideration of the second in Gravity's Rainbow. In between, the two
> possibilities form, in various mixtures and guises,the onto-epistemological
> cruxes that have fascinated critics
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>  These considerations constitute the parameters that generate
>  the complex RELIGIOUS DIALECTIC (my caps) of Pynchon's
>  fiction: a fluctuating tension between nostalgia for cosmic
>  harmony and commitment to amoral power worship, superimposed
>  upon the fluctuating tension between the notion of a
>  neutral, structureless universe and that of a universe
>  infiltrated by insidious structures of Control.
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>  *The Gnostic Pynchon*  Dwight Eddins,  Cutter's University
>  Press  1990
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