Beyond the Rainbow

[Paul Mackin]

On 11/3/2011 8:05 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
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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.

I kind of think the reason your suggestion--that P might have had second 
thoughts about GR--hasn't been taken up more positively here may be due 
to the fact that Americans probably don't see fascistic fantasies (if 
that's what GR contained) in quite the same light as do Europeans.

A historic difference between the two continents.

P


> By now this is  more interesting than to go on pleading for another or 
> even an ÜberRainbow, don't you think?)
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>>   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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