Debate Topic

[Bekah]

Dense, wide-ranging, heavily allusionary, illusionary,  and delusionary, magically revisionist, frequently funny.  And the they rolled up the sod.

Bek

http://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/

On Jul 30, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yeahp, you guys are right about that word.
>  
> yes, P has (almost) no tradition and is anti-Tradition (in most senses) so that was not right.
>  
> I did mean style/method, yes, everything and the hospital sink but also in the 'magical', near-surreal movement of images and idea.....silly
> musical numbers, how Pynchon.....    the Olympics, Danny boy and Branagh  trying to
> get The Industrial Revolution (!!) into an Olympics OC?!?.......and Bond & the Queen ...did you not have
> a moment's association with the Chums and their balloon?....and Olde Happy Shire England (of the past)--
> when communities were organic and more......the whole homage to workers all thru it..................
>  
> Glorified England more than TRP ever did America or England but, still......
>  
> 
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> To: Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> 
> Cc: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 2:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Debate Topic
> 
> "Tradition" isn't a good word choice here.  Maybe style or method, as
> in "everything including the kitchen sink."
> 
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If by Pynchon Tradition you mean the Tradition Pynchon constantly satirizes then I would agree...?
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> The Opening Ceremony for the Olympics was deeply in the Pynchon tradition.
> >
> >
> 
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