Beyond the Rainbow

[Keith Davis]

Could you say more about this "stated early plan"? Where would I find this?
Thanks.

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

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