Reading Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

On 2/26/2012 5:12 PM, Keith Davis wrote:
> I like that line in "The Big Chill", "sometimes you just have to let 
> art wash over you".



Didn't Lake, child of the storm, want the rain to wash over her?

It becomes a religious experience, as they say.

P
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> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net 
> <mailto:mackin.paul at verizon.net>> wrote:
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>     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.
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>     l prefer to let my unconscious figure everything out.
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>     The reason the answer to Mark gets repeated a few times is that
>     there is something wrong with my computer.
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>     P
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>>     On Sunday, February  26, 2012, Paul Mackin
>>     <mackin.paul at verizon.net <mailto: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)
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>>     > P
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