Tom and Harry

[Mark Kohut]

What I found most interesting, most telling, here is that he
thinks 'morality' is clearly, mostly, found in the clean allegorical lines
of fantasy fiction.............

Not in the major social [moral] judgments of the authors listed. 

Speaking of fantasy fiction.................which we have been....
Still chewing over that poet in the NYTimes Book Review ....
who, basically, defended Martin this way...............

Is 'our' hunger for such clean fictional 'morality' a clear sign we fell it
is gone in our world? 


I remember when I applied for a bookstore job, around his age maybe
and I said with full non-irony, "I'm very interested in contemporary literature", which
meant I liked to read new novels....

Like everyone else but with much more pretension than many..................



----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Tom and Harry

On 8/22/2011 6:20 AM, Henry M wrote:
> http://www.cornellsun.com/section/arts/content/2011/08/22/potter-ends-remarkable-high
>
> Is this is the kind of claptrack that passes for thoughtful writing at
> Cornell these days?
>
> "Lucky for me, we inhabit a post-modern moment that offers a variety
> of literature to reflect our confusion. Try pulling a thread of
> morality out of Pynchon, Delillo or Foster Wallace and you’ll surely
> see why. As a reader of contemporary American literature, I can’t help
> but notice that not only is morality out of style, but so are dramatic
> conclusions and linear structure. All of these structures seem overly
> romantic and most authors employ them only ironically. In an attempt
> to mirror real life, 21st century literature is incomplete, erratic
> and kind of unsatisfying."

I guess the author is undecided about what he really wants.

"Lucky for me" is sort of ironic, but so is "kind of unsatisfying."

P
>
> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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