GR translation: demolition man

[David Morris]

Woods want psych-diving realism. Pynchon's psych depth in GR is more
universal, and as such follows Modernism's goals, as Woods should
appreciate.

On Saturday, November 10, 2012, alice wellintown wrote:

> Not exactly. What Wood wants is ambiguity that causes readers to care
> for characters. We see a little boy suffer and then he is cruel. We
> then hope he will mend his ways. The author, without intrusion, has
> made the reader as he has created his characters, made them care about
> the boy and his life. When an author like Pynchon spins the reader
> round and round in the funhouse of ambiguity, the reader is made
> indifferent, cares little, if at all, for the characters, the worlds
> they live in, the situations, but is fascinated by the mirrors, the
> reflections of multiplicity, the ambiguity itself, the spin and
> mirrors.
>
> But this puts P in good company. Who cares for Romeo or Juliet? We
> know from the start that they will die, will take their own lives,
> that their stars are crossed. It is Shakespearre we go to see and
> hear, and the acting of his plays, not the dramatis personae. Are we
> concerned about Hamlet? We are not. It is a play we study, not quite
> as a closet drama, but as a messy gothic monster full of more words
> and ambiguity than any other play by the bard of Avon. It is full of
> long speeches about Being, and Acting, and Madness; it is cutting room
> floor film spliced together and grafted to an old Norse tale. Who
> cares about Hamlet? A 30 years old actor who won't play his part as
> King, a man who uses ambiguity to show off, to trick, to kill is not a
> man I care about. I am indifferent to Hamlet. Shakespeare's ambiguity,
> the play, the play within the play, the play with words, the ambiguity
> is the thing that makes Bill Shakespeare the King.
>
>
> > Does Wood makes this demand?  Really?
> >
> >>
> >> And, anyway, if Wood assumes that language must be reduced to its
> >> communication function, like the way one walks, or dresses to
> communicate,
> >> and that a clear and unambiguous message is an expectation that readers
> >> have when they open a work of fiction, he's an idiot.
> >>
> >
>
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