Pattern recognitions and neat insight on TR COL49 and Italo Calvino

[alice wellintown]

Itz too common,
a critic's cliche,
to say,
the author insisits,
the text resists,
and so,
I concur,
'tis better to say,
They offer,
no absolute,
only Korrespondences kute,
They defer
They defer
They defer.



On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:17 AM,  <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3APattern_Recognition_(novel)#Post-stuctualist_v_Post-modern_wrt_.22The_Crying_of_Lot_49.22
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> ". . .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."
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>
>
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> Foucault's Pendulum was good too.
>
> I don't honestly understand what "ultimate meaning" means
> but whatever. . .
>
> ed