Recognizing The Recognitions: more prolegomena

[Mark Kohut]

free associating: 'the tower is everywhere"  = Pynchon's "impossibility of 
escape from a (the) pattern."  ?


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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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Subject: Recognizing The Recognitions: more prolegomena

The Recognitions: the title of a third-century "theological romance" attributed 
to Clement of Rome (see 373.1 ff.). In his working notes for the novel Gaddis 
wrote: "The Recognitions as title I like perfectly because it implies the 
impossibility of escape from a (the) pattern"; and elsewhere: "THE RECOGNITIONS 
is I think in the first place a simple lable [sic], deceptively simple perhaps, 
and all the better" (quoted in Koenig's "'Splinters from the Yew Tree,'" 13, 85)

Pattern, a pattern...Cf. Nabokov, others....one reason P liked him?/One aspect P 

learned something about from him?