The Recognitions and V.

[Ian Livingston]

Hm. Do ya think? I haven't read The Recognitions yet, but V. seems to
me to suggest that it has always been a fragmented world. Pynchon
represents history as an Ariadne's thread through an ongoing
Armageddon in which individuals seek ever more tenuous connections as
complexity becomes more evident. The unifying element is memory
itself, rather than recollection of a better unity.

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Fragmentation and loss as the overarching meaning of the modern world. Both.
> Belief that the world was once unified and that that was/is felt as a basic Good
> Thing.
>
> (Of course, other books, writers, too, I'm sure. Who?)
>



-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant