Recog ch 2

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, what is it about that "vanishing point", so built up to? 

To discover a basic technique of the artist 600 years old is
to 'recognize' that basic truth? 

"studies in perspective"? another internal metaphor---Wyatt
strives for perspective, most others in the book don't [have perspective]?
Esp. his dad, who, in this scene Wyatt trembles in front of and turns
his eyes from, as if this scene is some kind of way of defining himself
against his dad, in fear and trembling and on the next page we learn
that Gwyon gets a letter and remarks on 'the vanishing point' and so
this might be another metaphor for the son vanishing.....from the 
guilt-ridden, narrow perspective of the father? 


And, if Wyatt is unfinished this early is Wyatt like the [best; real] art that
is unfinished? 



----- Original Message ----
From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sat, April 23, 2011 6:59:07 AM
Subject: Re: Recog ch 2

> for me the idea cropped up when he talks about "the vanishing point"
> which is suggestive but I'm not sure how to express why that makes me
> think about post-life planning...

He shows the lines and the vanishing point to his father; the tension
WG builds into this moment makes it seem like a dramatic moment, even
a climax of some kind. But of what? Is it that Wyatt has discovered a
basic technique of the artist, one that has been used to add realism
to works in European art for over 600 years? Is there also some
metaphysical epiphany?

Mark mentioned Nietzsche. Perspectivism and art, falsification, masks.

Again, Wyatt is still an unfinished man. May and Dad, and the others,
like the doctors who pump his blood out and the blood of others in, ca
not abide this, fot it would allow that Man is, like God, a Creator.


>
>
> mainly, though, the best indicator is that he doesn't act in his own
> epicurean interests, but refuses Cremer's kind offer --
>
> If he doesn't believe in some kind of transcendental rightness that he
> has to answer to, be judged by, and expect non-earthly rewards from,
> then why does he do that?
>