Pattern recognitions and neat insight on TR COL49 and Italo Calvino

[edmoorester at gmail.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3APattern_Recognition_(novel)#Post-stuctualist_v_Post-modern_wrt_.22The_Crying_of_Lot_49.22


". . .the sort of transcendental meanings that these literary
detectives have supplied, and seminal works such as Italo
Calvino's Invisible Cities (1973) and Thomas Pynchon's
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), rather than offer characters
who succeed in interpreting the city for us, merely offer
layers of signification, texts that refer endlessly to other
texts, proliferating conspiracies and patterns that defer
ultimate meaning."




Foucault's Pendulum was good too.

I don't honestly understand what "ultimate meaning" means
but whatever. . .

ed
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