Reading Pynchon

[Keith Davis]

I like that line in "The Big Chill", "sometimes you just have to let art
wash over you".


On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

>  On 2/26/2012 3:55 PM, David Morris wrote:
>
> Fiction has a long history of being something to figure out. Nabokov made
> intricate fiction puzzles. Joyce too, but different. TRP also.
>
>
> l prefer to let my unconscious figure everything out.
>
> The reason the answer to Mark gets repeated a few times is that there is
> something wrong with my computer.
>
>
> P
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> On Sunday, February  26, 2012, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> > You're not boring us, Mark.
> >
> > I DO want to toss out what for me is a good way to read Pynchon.
> >
> > For me, fiction isn't something to figure out.
> >
> > This is notwithstanding the fact that Pynchon is a difficult writer and
> it is often necessary to go to the reference library in order to know what
> he is talking about.
> >
> > No problem.
> >
> > My solution ISN'T to degrade meaning, but rather to elevate the  meaning
> of meaning.
> >
> > Instead of seeking meaning for the rational mind (which some p-listers
> seem to find necessary and others clunky) I would rather find meaning for
> the Soul.
> >
> > Pynchon's greatest strength as a writer is his gift for stimulating the
> imagination. The originality of his words is often breathtaking.
> >
> > This gives us pleasure on a conscious level--it also washes over our
> Unconscious, our Psyche, our Imagination, if you will, whatever you want to
> call that part of us beyond the rational, beyond time even.  James Hillman
> would probably call the process soul building.
> >
> > This is the MEANING I want. (my soul needs help wherever it can get it)
> >
> > P
> >
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