the bruited cambridge companion to pynchon

[Henry M]

Deep meaning and reality, and other isisms appear to probably be less
useful than quantum methodologies for modeling Pynchon and other universes.
On Aug 7, 2012 7:45 AM, "Paul Mackin" <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:

>  On 8/7/2012 9:00 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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>     "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)......
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> Well . . . .  there's real and real real and real real real--an infinite
> recursion--with no stack overflow.
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>   *From:* Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de><lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> *To:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> <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:
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> "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:
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> >> cambridge companion to thomas pynchon (reviews? opinions? caveats?)
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