TR and phonies

[Mark Kohut]

yeah, salinger w Holden sick of phonies....

was this pervasive postwar theme, 50s to 60s breakthruh, almost a new one in 
American writers?...

I know no real themes are new--Melville gave us Strike thru the Mask and all the 
confidence man 

cons but he was as prescient as a prophet........

Would we label Gaddis prophet-like? In what ways?

 



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From: "edmoorester at gmail.com" <edmoorester at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sun, April 10, 2011 2:12:22 AM
Subject: TR and phonies

re: TR 

this obsession with the. . .crap my german sucks. . . Kantian "thing in itself" 
is really interesting. . . 


reminds me of Holden Caufield and his observation on "phonies" 

and then i have to mention The Matrix. . .as modernity (or questioning the 
author or even experience in itself) progresses 


so many great phonies in the big world out there doing phoniness 

Wyatt would have loved Joseph Campbell 

ed
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