Re: La Jarretière

[Richard Ryan]

Concur.  An anti-character approach, which is in conflict with the
deep humanism is that is also present in TRP's work.  Treating
personae as Gumby figurines is not a terribly enlightened approach to
human psychology....

2011/4/1 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
> My take on the reappeance of  La Jarretière is that P. uses characters
> as types, and these types are reusable.  Pig Bodine is another example
> of his doing this.
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> David Morris
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> 2011/4/1 Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>:
>> This sounds on target to me Mark. I don't find any textual evidence in "V." that La Jarretière's (ludicrous) death is staged.  Thus, her re-appearance in AtD must be Pynchon multiplexing in his usual warped, giggly way..  History heaps jokes on top of jokes.
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>> RR
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>> 2011/3/31 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
>>> Rereading the AtD appearance after having just reread V.
> the death in V. still seems real and the reappeance is some insightful
> spin on turning horror into a joke.....farce.....in history
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