TR, misc. This one goes out to Jed.............

[David Morris]

There are reasons that writers such as WG & TRP have used Jungian
concepts in their "constructs."  Jung's theories are heavily rooted in
literary and mythological sources, and are inherently highly "visual"
as well, just asking to be played with.  The Recognitions and GR are
deeply concerned with spiritual (epistemological) issues and the value
of patterns, surface and deep.

One of the things that has struck me about TR is its numerous
"pronouncements" that occur about all kinds of subjects, judgement
statements, commentary, etc. about history, reality, magic, etc.  GR
has (somewhat) similar narratorial excursions.  I do see that Pynchon
probably read TR, and was very much influenced by it (probably).

David Morris

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com> wrote:
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> My point, poorly stated, was that I really don't give a shit aboutJung except for the fact that Gaddis made some use of his work in writing The Recognitions.
>