Pynchon lit.

[alice wellintown]

one could get the Pynchon Notes and read these; these provide a good survey
of what the industry has produced; the works on P, like the works produced
on others who have caught the attention of the academy, are a dialogue,
debate, discussion in the industry generally, about how fiction is or is
not evolving or devolving into this or that, and about hooby-horses and the
intertextuals and even, though rarely, about what might interest those who
pay the tuition that funds esoteric and far out research and publication.
for a while the industry was stuck in a grinding gear, and pynchon was
exploited for his modernist to postmodernist elements...some of these
products are a waste to read, others, like brian mcale are quite useful
once you get out of the grinding gear. a great debate about pynchon and
history that focused, at one point, on V and revisions of that virgin
voyage from the young P, letters he wrote, the herero and their cult, the
S&M of victims in vacuums and so on was a turning point as was an essay
about the rathouse or rat nest of history, and, of course, VL exposed the
political P, and the SL intro and the intro to several texts, including
1984, provided more that chaf in the mill for the non-indeterminists.
anywayz, lotsz has been produced, much of it manufactured for
non-consumption, as few read this stuff, but given world enough and
time...I still like a good deal of it, even the stuff that reflects the
scholar more than the text resources she makes her visions from. on this,
the females have done wonders with P.
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