Mind-Bending Science In Thomas Pynchon's Mind-Bending Novel Against The Day

[Keith Davis]

Party pooper....

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:13 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Did the early 20th C readers of Joseph Conrad call him a poet who
> mines the sciences and the political sciences and so on to  set them
> in a human context? Look to The Secret Agent, a novel that certainly
> was mined by Pynchon, a novel that Conrad has written a good deal
> about, and, like P, rejected the critical readings of, claiming, as P
> does about science, entropy and so forth, that he has no knowledge of
> these topics above what any intelligent person could not take from
> books that are easy enough to read at the local library?Now, I have no
> rue objection to calling P a poet, although he is not one, although,
> he once considered the art, as he did the art of writing plays, a
> profession he wished he might make a go at. We do not call Shakespeare
> a novelist. Yes, the history of the form does, in an English manner,
> spring from his plays some years later, but Avon Bill retired to
> Stratford as an author of plays and poems. P is novelist. Nothing
> wrong wiht that. In fact, if one can write as well as Pynchon does,
> after GR, there is something very right about that. So why belittle
> the profession. It is not rocket science. Not even poetry. It is
> fiction. And,as the Sloth essay Mr P published and the Luddite essay
> he published attest, an author, an author of some playful child of
> American Romance, of Luddite Fictions, is not fit to sit at the Royal
> Society Table. Well, he may not wear purplle, but he writes it better
> than any Rocket Scientist, even if he must turn sour grapes into
> purple, violet, and lime, prose.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Pynchon's achievement in Against the Day proves that he is peerless as a
> > poet who can mine science for gems of insight and set them into the
> context
> > of the humanity that is the ultimate concern of his novels."
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> This is cool. Thanks, Dave.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Prashant Kumar
> >> <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Do read the comments as well. Monte and others point out a few
> >>> infelicities in the presentation.
> >>>
> >>> P.
> >>>
> >>> On 10 August 2012 12:49, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you Mr. Monroe and THANK YOU Mr. White... a very helpful
> "primer"
> >>>> for the woefully Science-Illiterate...
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Dave Monroe <
> against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mind-Bending Science In Thomas Pynchon's Mind-Bending Novel Against
> >>>>> The Day: Part I
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> http://www.science20.com/adaptive_complexity/mindbending_science_thomas_pynchons_mindbending_novel_against_day_part_i-8804
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mind-Bending Science In Thomas Pynchon's Mind-Bending Novel Against
> >>>>> The Day: Part II - The Quaternion Wars
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> http://www.science20.com/adaptive_complexity/mind_bending_science_in_thomas_pynchons_mind_bending_novel_against_the_day_part_ii_the_quaternion_wars
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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