NP: _The Proud Tower_ (Barbara W. Tuchman)

[Mark Kohut]

Pynchon uses the Tower metaphor throughout his work......for him, for Murakami it
seems to go back even furthur to Frazer and Eliade at least. 
Yeats famously used it too...
 
I went thru one of my obsessive periods posting stuff about it here, all in the
eternal archives if you want to check out some associations......
 

From: David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>
To: Pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 10:51 PM
Subject: RE: NP: _The Proud Tower_ (Barbara W. Tuchman)


Wow! Thanks for all the quick feedback on this! I've requested it from the library 

_The Guns of August_ sounds interesting, too.

Mark mentioned the connections with TRP. When I heard about this, I did immediately think that it might resonate well with his works. 

All speculation, of course, since I haven't read it, yet.

I wondered if it might connect with Jung's Tower, too, which features in 1Q84.

I've been listening to 1Q84. It's always different to listen to a book than it is to read it, but in this case I imagine that it is a strikingly different experience since there is a different reader for each chapter's "host" (or whatever the right word would be).                
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