Very misc related to grace

[alice wellintown]

Yes, I think all of those reasons are good ones and there are others.
Certainly from the start P has attracted attention with Big Ideas,
like Entropy...and Henry Adams, if I can call Hnery an Idea,  or at
least the idea that we are like Adams, our world, like his world, our
quest like that of Stencil, and our sickness like the one that
afflicts Benny and the Crew, we are as tourists in Eliot's Wastland,
we spin out and return like a yo-yo in the hand of Grace on the cusp
of Yeat's famous gyre turning, and that eventually, under the street
we meet the paradox, the fork in the road that the Yogi cather in the
house that Ruth built takes when the false Grace, the White Goddess
made Dynamo in a Faustian countefitting,  is disembled and the
narrative aborted after an exhausting track round the world and up and
down the library stacks like the sub-librarian in the model of P's
early attempts to write the great american novel, Melville's _The
Whale_.

And surely the style, P's unique way with the language, his paranoid
and manic, or hysterical prose is a good reason to read Pynchon.

There is snob appeal, sure, most people don't and can't finish a fat
book like GR or AGTD, not becuase it is a door-stopper, but because it
is experiemental and tests one's metal.

Surely P is now exhausted and so are we and so, maybe lazy is the
wrong adjective here, don't mena to be mean, but tired and out of
energy. P doesn't say much so...we can only speculate, but there is no
reason to expect that he, like others his age in the profession
(Roth), has run out of ink.

Why people read P when the books were published may tell us why we
still read him, but I also think we read P because he is important to
the study of literature, and specifically AMerican Literature; his
contribution is quite important.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> In response to your question, Bekah, I can only answer: yes.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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:
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>> > 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.
>>
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