The WreckIgnitions Read. Snarky question

[Mark Kohut]

A--and, much more sarcasm in Gaddis?....good, bad, neither (just different)? 


Sarcasm in general---true here?---comes from what some might call more arrogance
than playfulness........narrator writes from a higher plane of superiority than 
V. ever
inhabits, yes?.....and even GR? Gaddis is more Swiftian in his savageness than
Pynchon----but Pynchon imagines over-the-top more like Swift. (What he sez 
surrealism
might have opened him to...conceits like a game of extreme metaphor) 

Which, again---choose C above---just says something about the overwhelmingness
on Gaddis vision herein, yes? Dark as a lie.....He KNOWS faking it is 
everywhere.......
For him the famous line might be: "The tower is nowhere"....? 

Pynchon on the page, although also a dramatically dark vision of History and 
America in V......and GR.......

laughs more? 


 


----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; pov at ix.netcom.com
Sent: Sat, April 9, 2011 10:35:35 AM
Subject: Re: The WreckIgnitions Read. Snarky question

Concur.  Gaddis: dry, wry.  Pynchon: boisterous, sometime (to his
cost) buffoonish.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gaddis, Pynchon, both 'comic' writers--as Erik Burns has helped me--us?--focus
> on.
>
>
> But Gaddis's wit, so laconic via the narrator, as They say of English wit is
> much
> more what we have come to label snarky than Pynchon's
>
> Which is, often simply juvenile and otherwise just Falstaff-exuberant on the
> page.
>
>
> Yes? Discuss among ourselves.....
>
>



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