Pynchon is a realist after all

[Mark Kohut]

Yes....I'm worrying too......
 
I'm presuming Lennox is relatively young. At the start of his blog post, he assumes 'postmodernism'
as a given so I saw his remark as coming from a reader who has been presented with ...........
the ambivalence of "reality"? in many writers......

From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
To: 'Mark Kohut' <markekohut at yahoo.com>; 'pynchon -l' <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 12:10 PM
Subject: RE: Pynchon is a realist after all


This “getting close to reality”… is it a trend? Should we worry? 
 
From:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Mark Kohut
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 11:00 AM
To: pynchon -l
Subject: Re: Pynchon is a realist after all
 
From a blogger named Lennox who has read the ebook edition of Gravity's Rainbow very recently (obviously): 
 
"One thing I do want to note is how close to reality Pynchon gets – during my time reading Gravity’s Rainbow I went on a day-trip to the National Science Museum in London and there was an exhibit about the V-2 rocket and its production in Peenemünde and the Mittelwerk, with photographs showing places mentioned in the novel. This helped give the book an extra dimension."
 
From:Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2012 7:16 PM
Subject: Pynchon is a realist after all
 
"He was a sewer-rat. His friends would lower him, with a metal-detector, into the main sewer beneath the hotels of Miami
Beach. There, he would prospect for jewelry flushed, accidently, down the toilets.
   'It is not, I can assure you, sir,'he said, 'an unrewardiung occupation.' "
                                                  Notebooks of Bruce Chatwin, 1980's
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