Question re IV: from epic to everyday

[Lawrence Bryan]

I've wondered from time to time if Pynchon ever read Lovejoy's "The Great Chain of Being"

It would be interesting to have a peek in his library.

Lawrence

On Aug 31, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> The best modern NEW Shakespeare annotations [Arden editions] are wonderful (if one has the time
> and inclination) for simply suggesting by quoted associations how a notion in Plutarch might
> be buried in a Shakespeare couplet.....how even a phrase from Plutarch,  or Montaigne--or contemporaries
> or ANYONE he is likely to have read might be reflected in Shakespeare's lines.........
>  
> this is of a different order than annotating a story from Ovid that S. clearly uses (and invariably) changes for his genius use.
>  
> In that spirit---that is loose annotation--- I want to offer the theme of Life Against Death--which we are almost
> sure P read--see famous essay on----as (part of what) is contained in the line
> about sexual desire from the epic to the everyday......................................
>  
> leading to, in Brown, what happens when it is thwarted as it always has been in History....
>  
> 

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