The Recognitions and V.

[Mark Kohut]

Both these writers PROFOUNDLY influenced by Eliot. The Eliot who
could be oversimplified by saying            1) gave us the concept of the 
modern world as a wasteland
                                                            2) wrote most 
influentially about "the dissociation of sensibility" in the 17th Century. 

                                                             Feelings from 
intelligence.


 


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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 12:40:03 PM
Subject: The Recognitions and V.

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?)