TT 1.3 - "The Recognitions"

[David Morris]

Then Gaddis' intention is a rather doctrinaire one: insisting on a
reality, on patterns, that exist independent of an observer.  in GR
(and elsewhere) Pynchon goes into great depth exploring pattern
recognition as being, possibly, the paranoid invention of the
observer.  Reality is never confirmed nor denied.

David Morris

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com> wrote:
> [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"]
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> The character Otto's character Gordon says, "Orignlty not inventn bt snse of recall, recgntion, pttrns alrdy thr. q. You cannt invnt t shpe of a stone." This is not the only way the word recognition is used in the text, but it is an important one. Recognizing the underlying patterns, the archetypal substrate, the Platonic ideals. Ties in with Aunt May's demonization of human creativity. Reality is already there. It can't be created, only recognized.
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