Back to AtD. how does TRP feel about railroads? p.930

[Phillip Greenlief]

am i the only one that thinks pynchon got the whole list thing from joyce?
'cause i do.





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From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, June 29, 2012 1:48:58 PM
Subject: Re: Back to AtD. how does TRP feel about railroads? p.930

think the Pyncher went crazy with the lists in AtD. reminded me of a
critic's basting of Hemingway who just had to list all those drinks by
name instead of just saying a glass of wine or booze. Hemingway faked
his way thru life, he tried to live thru the fiction I guess. throw in
a couple of foreign words, your golden

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:32 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> He does like them coffee messes. Notice the one on the list of items
> in the crowd here in the passage.  And, so we might revisit that cofee
> mess in GR. Or not. He does like these lists and piles of stuff,
> layers, palimscests and crowds of folks, mobs, mobbing about, bobbing
> about till we run into someone who has some odd reason for being in
> this place at this time. A railroad figures large in the American
> Mystery (Tanner). The straight line, the time table (Gatsby) vs. the
> Circles of Emerson, the flux. Ahab is an iron man, sometimes he is
> bronze, but he is set on steel wheels. C.L.R James's book on Moby-Dick
> is worth a peek. If you signal up all lines, well, you've now got more
> than a foward backward motion, you have an above and a below, and
> there is no telling where you might travel. Now, to return to Huck and
> Jim after the river raft adventure, you are free to go anywhere, even
> to places unknown and unmapped.
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