TR Pt 2 ch 1 isolation in this chapter and the Shining

[Mark Kohut]

Isolation, loneliness because almost no one is recognized for their full humanity, right...one major theme of TR....
 
And this Pt 2 Chap 1 is the chapter where we get all the tabloid 'news of the world', pathetic, and phony [some] yet also real
 and 
the chapter in which we read of 'that colossus of self-justification, Reason"....Reason...which severed itself----
[Severed Head, Iris Murdoch, later]---from the absurd. irrational, contaminating chaos of the past.......
 
still alive in all of those absurd tabloid stories...........
 
And "Reason supplied means, and eliminated ends".........p. 290......
 
How do we go on thinking after this?  
 

From: Edward A Moore <edmoorester at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Monday, July 4, 2011 4:42 PM
Subject: TR Pt 2 ch 1 isolation in this chapter and the Shining

TR Pt 2 ch 1 isolation in this chapter and the Shining

http://www.shmoop.com/shining-stephen-king/jack-torrance.html

"Similarly, Jack thinks that isolation is the way to regain sanity,
to finish his play, and make some money in the process."

Reminds me of Wyatt. . .

"But, he can't hide from the demons inside him – the isolation only
makes things worse, because there's no one to check him."

"Plus, the isolation is an extension of Jack's already extremely
isolated inner life."

"Part of Jack's downfall is his emulation of the rich and famous people at the
Overlook's 1945 masquerade ball, presumably people similar in class to the
attendees at Prince Prospero's ball from The Masque of the Red Death."

Jack's identification with them seems to open him to much of the
Overlook's evil.



Reminds me of Otto with his goofy facade esp with the sling prop.

ed
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