The WreckIgnitions Read: Up Yours, too....

[kelber at mindspring.com]

By the Aunt's definition, all human expressions of creativity are godless forgeries.  So Wyatt's being told from a young age that everything's a forgery, ergo forging art is no worse than creating art.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Apr 6, 2011 4:04 PM
>To: Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: The WreckIgnitions Read: Up Yours, too....
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>I'm liking this....YES, I was struck by that word original too...
>and that word 'originality' he uses ain't an accident
>as a real critic would say.............since it is in the fabric
>of the book's exporational meanings............
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 3:43:10 PM
>Subject: Re: The WreckIgnitions Read: Up Yours, too....
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>Perhaps the arguments are ad hominem because they are based on a
>supposition about humans, that things of grand scope and fortuitous
>(there's chance again) originality cannot be of human origin. The
>words 'fortuitous originality' stand out in this book about plagiarism
>and counterfeiting. And, fortuitous originality is attributed to God.
>(Who in the next sentence strikes Camilla's appendix.)
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