AtD, Lake and overcoming retribution?

[Ian Livingston]

GTF,

Looking forward to the tie-in, as I, too, think Lake is a very
important element of AtD. Hell, I even think it's appropriate to look
into the meaning of the Lake tri-gram in the I Ching ba gua as a part
of appreciating her virtues. A good copy of the I Ching is a better
resource than any web info I can easily find.

I don't really do fanaticism well, being much too far afield to zero
in on any one thing (is that a long way around begging short attention
span?) to really be a very loyal sort of fan or anything, but I think
the easy way to dismiss and miss out on the pleasures of reading
Pynchon is to gloss over all the layers of paint he uses in each
tortuous portrait.

I don't think I envy his nay-sayers the richness they miss by
pretending art is something you can appreciate on the surface. Well,
okay, maybe you can do that with Warhol and his cadre....

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well said. This is the reason I love Pynchon's work.
> z.
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> http://www.macclaveyphotography.com/
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> --- On Fri, 3/2/12, barbie gaze <barbiegaze at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: barbie gaze <barbiegaze at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: AtD, Lake and overcoming retribution?
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, March 2, 2012, 6:13 AM
>
> Pynchon's purpose, to replicate in fiction a society he regards as depraved, and to undermine ordinary and common perceptions of that society while masterfully erecting a labyrinthine structure riddled with cul-de-sacs, dead ends, trap doors, fun-house reflections, experimentations with genres and narratives and characters and forms, to undercut and ironize, to draw from and sensational sources and give the lie to the nostalgic revisonists, is achived in this work, AGtD.
>



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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the
trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments
of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates
than the simplest urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant