Very misc related to grace

[Bekah]

Well Alice,  that post makes me wonder why we read Pynchon  -  is it for the ideas (big or small),  the style,  the weirdness/originality (when it happens), the dense narrative,  the Grace,   the challenge,  the snob appeal (if there is any),   other reasons?  

Bekah



On Nov 26, 2012, at 3:15 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pynchon likes to take on the BIG ideas (Entropy, History, Virginity,
> Gravity...Free Will & Grace) and turn them into pretzil logics or
> force them into Koans that paradoxically turn out to be ironic book of
> the dead (allusive parables) dead ends.
> 
> Now, I'm no expert on Grace, or Pynchon, but I suspect that his use of
> Grace is an example of the propensity described above, and
> specifically the paraodoxical BIG idea Grace/Free Will.
> 
> Why Pynchon does this or to what end is open to lotz of readings. I
> suspect that he does it because he is lazy; he re-worksd old material
> over and over again.