TR 1.3 - "The Recognitions"

[Mark Kohut]

Per Alice's definitions, to recognize implies something out there, that is
in the world (somehow)....??



----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
To: cfabel <cfabel at sfasu.edu>
Cc: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, April 26, 2011 10:14:55 AM
Subject: Re: TR 1.3 - "The Recognitions"

(Correcting the typo in my subject line)

I've not read The Defense, but from what I've read *about* it there
would appear to be themes and motifs in common....

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:18 AM, cfabel <cfabel at sfasu.edu> wrote:
> Then TR and The Defense are of the same concern?
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> A post in which we again ask, "Why is this book called 'The Recognitions"?
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> From the online Readers guide::
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> "The Recognitions: the title of a third-century "theological romance"
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> attributed to Clement of Rome (see 373.1 ff.). In his working notes for the
> novel Gaddis wrote: "The Recognitions as title I like perfectly because it
> implies the impossibility of escape from a (the) pattern"; and elsewhere:
> "THE RECOGNITIONS is I think in the first place a simple lable [sic],
> deceptively simple perhaps, and all the better" (quoted in Koenig's
> "'Splinters from the Yew Tree,'" 13, 85).
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> I find both of these apparently off-the-cuff authorial remarks completely
> opaque.  In any case, one form or another of the word "recognition" appears
> at the following locations in Chapter 3
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> [page.line]: 78.epigraph, 84.24, 88.15, 91.42, 92.6, 98.6, 107.36, 123.9,
> 139.37, 152.12.  This is the densest concentration of the word so far;
> whatever "deceptively simple" significance it may have, that meaning begins
> to resonate more deeply in Chapter 3.



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