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[Markekohut]

what does " the broken estate" mean in Wood?

and I say P's values are no less clear than Melville's. And Shakespeare's are clear (enough)
From work-to-work but over his whole oeuvre point in more directions than Pynchon's do. 

and, are Melville's so focused over his whole life's work? 

Q: Does Wood want loose allegory to " single up" all lines? do P's Surround Sound ( but
Clear in its values )  allegories attack Wood 's very narrownesses? 

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On Oct 14, 2012, at 11:32 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> And, it is here that so much that Wood has to say is founded, on his
> notion of the broken estate. He can abide a Melville, even praise him
> for his mad use of metaphor, though he couches such praise in the
> crumbling certitudes stapled to a dying animal that knows naught but
> doubt, but he cannot put up with a Pynchon because literary belief
> must have values, in Booth's sense, a world of values the reader may
> stand on.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:27 AM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> “the reader’s need to know where, in the world of values, he stands, that
>> is, to know where the author wants him to stand” (Booth. 73).
>> 
>> excerpted from a brief deiscussion from Booth, on the older,
>> "discredited" meaning or application of the term.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Seems Paul's use of theme is the current one, according to Wikipedia ( this article could surely be expanded) and my definition is an older one.
>>> 
>>> Mark, older than hip Paul....
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_(narrative)
>>>> 
>>>> 
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