Beyond the Rainbow

[Mark Kohut]

>From how love (of his life, we presume) and marriage and fatherhood may have changed him
 
and from some new focus on the character creation in his post-GR novels, all specultion has to deal
with his stated early plan for writing most of the later books. 
 
Re: character in his fiction. I still see it as his conscious choices re the worlds he put his characters in.
M & D are 'round' because they could be then.......in GR, the War narrowed all..........and Slothrop's
disappearance meant a lot.............within the meanings of the fiction.

From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: Beyond the Rainbow





I disagree with the idea that there is a Pynchon Two and a Pynchon
One, the first before GR and the second after it.
Pynchon One would be --- before and including GR. 

(Since some do seem to get this wrong: GR would still be the book, if I could take only one novel of Pynchon to that desert island. It's just that I became interested in what the author himself might not liked about Gravity's Rainbow afterwards and what he, thus, changed in later books. By now this is  more interesting than to go on pleading for another or even an ÜberRainbow, don't you think?) 


The Last work, a
california veggie burger with pubic hair on the side and then stuck in
your throat, is the least of his west coast melted sleeze on top of
uncooked confetti. 
I wonder whose pubic hair ... but yes, IV was one from the vault put into the microwave quick and
dirty ... I disagree on the other two: VL, my favourite from Pynchon Two, and CoL49 are imo great.



But the romances, V. GR, M&D, AGTD, are all
classics: books people don't read, exceprt maybe the best one if they
can push through it. 
Hard to argue against this. "The classics are classics because they are classics" (Niklas Luhmann). 
However, the sound of V on the one and M&D on the other side seems to be coming from two different planets. One reason for this might be - think Cherrycoke and his listeners - Pynchon's experience of being a father. Well, I don't wanna overdo these biographical speculations and I stop here.
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