(np) some nice general opinioning

[Mark Kohut]

Nice, nice quote from the great essay on GR that I have also read---(but did not remember that line).
 
So, maybe our common ground is the anarchism theme was new, being just felt and explored in 
Lot 49.......so you judge it that way
 
whereas I want to argue (and believe) that Wolfley's line might also apply, only slightly changed,
to Lot 49.............................................
 
Perhaps, in contradistinction to that reviewer who siad that Lot 49 is like an outtake from V...
It is more like a thematic precursor to GR....
 
 
 

From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: (np) some nice general opinioning

>I disagree respectfully and side with Bailey's explorations

I don't disagree with Bailey's explorations. Hell, at least he's
talking Pynchon, something he knows a good deal about. Moreover, I
know a good deal about what has been written about Pynchon and Anarchy
so I'm not suggesting that it's a culdesac or an exhausted topic by
any means. As far back as 1970 critics were digging into Pynchon's
anarchy. In one of the best essays, "Repression's Rainbow:The Presence
of Norman O. Brown in Pynchon's Big Novel," Lawrence C. Wolfley
writes:
The nihilism of GR is only apparent; it is actually anarchy that
Pynchon affirms, and the medium is the message.
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