AtD Here's the [a] thing.

[Paul Mackin]

On 2/20/2012 12:16 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> There is no reading, only rereading. ---Vladimir N.
> Even reading AtD on this group site back when and following the brand-new
> wiki for it, it still presented (to me) the same problem reading GR 
> the first time did......
> Trying to figure out stuff, an earnest, largely intellectual endeavor 
> made it harder (again for me,
> maybe not you) to see how much was being laughed at, satirized. This 
> reading I suggest---almost
> ALL of the 'intellectual' conversation stuff....all the bloviating 
> characters and their bloviations is played for laughs.
> All satirized like Swift did or others.......
> 'Truths' in TRP's visions mostly rest---so far, always with a "maybe" 
> qualifier---in the quotidian, often offhand stuff within scenes,
> around the sympathetic characters' sympathetic moments........
> One might even make the case that TRP is severely anti-intellectual in 
> some way, despite all the learning
> he puts into his books.     ???
> Your thoughts?



Pynchon is a "card" of the first water- a comic novelist--he shows man, 
not to exclude women,  as less than (s)he really is.  (it's more than 
that, but citing The Philosopher never hurts)

Having a lot of intellectual content  doesn't make a thing less funny, 
or more true.

That also goes for moral content--Homo ethicist is an extremely comic 
figure.

Good reading!

P








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