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[Mark Kohut]

The Recognitions, as Erik Burns responded at the time, is the first major 
American novel
after Walter Allen wrote this, to which this could apply. See thread on Thomas 
Love Peacock below
if interested.

Repost to start this April Fool's reading to remind us of what we are dealing 
with here. Richness is all.



FOR ANYTHING COMPARABLE IN OUR TIME WE WOULD NEED TO IMAGINE
>> A NOVELIST INTELLECTUALLY POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SATIRIZE IN ONE
>> BOOK THE EXPONENTS OF, SAY, MARXISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS, THE PSYCHOLOGY
>> OF JUNG, LOGICAL POSITIVISM, NEO-CATHOLICISM, EXISTENTIALISM, CHRISTIAN
>> SCIENCE, ABSTRACT PAINTING. ...!!!
>> 



----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, January 16, 2011 5:04:16 AM
Subject: Re: Did TRP take on this printed dare? In effect....

He's talking about Wm. Gaddis and _The Recognitions_, but even there the timing 
is off ... That's from 1955.


On Jan 16, 2011, at 0:39, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

>> 
> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> So, i find in a thrift store today this paperback of The English Novel by 
>>Walter
>> Allen,
>> 
>> And, I see Thomas Love Peacock, whom I have never read and who many say
>> has influenced TRP. Sublime comic satirist, Allen sez----thru characters
>> embodying ideas carried to their
>>  logical absurdity...THEN I read this:
>> 
>> FOR ANYTHING COMPARABLE IN OUR TIME WE WOULD NEED TO IMAGINE
>> A NOVELIST INTELLECTUALLY POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SATIRIZE IN ONE
>> BOOK THE EXPONENTS OF, SAY, MARXISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS, THE PSYCHOLOGY
>> OF JUNG, LOGICAL POSITIVISM, NEO-CATHOLICISM, EXISTENTIALISM, CHRISTIAN
>> SCIENCE, ABSTRACT PAINTING. ...!!!
>> 
>