the bruited cambridge companion to pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

On 8/7/2012 9:00 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> "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)......

Well . . . .  there's real and real real and real real real--an infinite 
recursion--with no stack overflow.

P
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> *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
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> 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)
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> On 05.08.2012 08:57, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
> >> cambridge companion to thomas pynchon (reviews? opinions? caveats?)
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