Did TRP take on this printed dare? In effect....

[Michael Bailey]

it's a chymical conspiracy thru time, TRP and TLP, dextro- and levo- rotary?

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, i find in a thrift store today this paperback of The English Novel by Walter
> Allen,
> orig 1954, 60s, in paperback in America, which I once had and read intoto
> learning of writers
>
> I wanted to read, how to and why.
>
> And, I see Thomas Love Peacock, whom I have never read and who many say
> has influenced TRP. Sublime comic satirist, Allen sez----thru characters
> embodying ideas carried to their
>  logical absurdity...THEN I read this:
>
> FOR ANYTHING COMPARABLE IN OUR TIME WE WOULD NEED TO IMAGINE
> A NOVELIST INTELLECTUALLY POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SATIRIZE IN ONE
> BOOK THE EXPONENTS OF, SAY, MARXISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS, THE PSYCHOLOGY
> OF JUNG, LOGICAL POSITIVISM, NEO-CATHOLICISM, EXISTENTIALISM, CHRISTIAN
> SCIENCE, ABSTRACT PAINTING. ...!!!
>
> Sound like any writer you have read---in our time??
>
> Sometimes, I can't believe what I read. If Pynchon never read this, and why
> would he even
>
> have bothered given his voracious plunge into original sources,
>  this is surely a Borges-like time-travel comment, at least, yes?
>
>
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