the bruited cambridge companion to pynchon

Tue Aug 7 08:00:05 CDT 2012

"new ways of conceiving our ontology"....fine phrase which I hope I do not dimish by saying 
it reminds me of my too-oft quoted: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - Hamlet (1.5.166-7)......

From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2012 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: the bruited cambridge companion to pynchon

With view on some of the more recent p-list-debates I'd like to quote the following from Kathryn Hume's chapter on M&D:

"Pynchon urges wider definitions of reality than those embodied in the physical and social world. He pushes us to open ourselves to visionary levels. Some of his non-material realities are unclassifiable, but some belong to recognized spiritual and religious systems, though he does not emphasize Christianity in Mason & Dixon quite as much as he does in Against the Day. Pynchon's point is that we need to acknowledge the possibilities. Striving to see connections is built into our process of reading Mason & Dixon. The other implied worlds or levels of reality are not problems to be solved, but rather possibilities to consider, new ways of conceiving our ontology " (p. 68)

On 05.08.2012 08:57, Michael Bailey wrote:

>> cambridge companion to thomas pynchon (reviews? opinions? caveats?)
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