Wood's Broken Estate

[Keith Davis]

Sorry, didn't read it closely enough. I think this guy is at least
partially full of shit...

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are these your ideas or Woods?
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> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:24 AM, alice wellintown <
> alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "I believe that distinctions between literary belief and
>> religion belief are important...I am attracted to writers
>> who struggle with those distinctions....[mid 19th cent.]
>> those distinctions became much harder to maintain, and we
>> have lived in the shadow of their blurring ever since. This
>> was when the old estate broke."
>>
>> "There is something about narrative that puts the world in
>> doubt...it makes belief more difficult. A story is a formal
>> filibuster; it slows down belief until belief falls asleep
>> and begins to dream its opposite, its negative....Truth
>> slipped away. And the novel...having founded the religion of
>> itself, relaxed too gently into aestheticism."
>>
>> Great writers--Melville, Flaubert, Woolf, Joyce, move
>> between the religious impulse and the novelistic,
>> distinguish and draw on both.
>>
>> "Thomas Pynchon and the Problem of Allegory"
>>
>> Allegory should not be tolerated, unless it overcomes itself
>> and acts like fiction as it does in Kafka, Mann, Dickens or
>> elaborates some complex truth--Dante, Kafka, or when "it
>> explodes itself in the hunt for allegorical truth
>> (Melville)".
>>
>>  Pynchon is the inheritor of Melville's broken estate. His
>> novels behave like allegories that refuse to allegorize,
>> allegory and the confusion of allegory, are what drive
>> Pynchon's books and his explicit politics.
>>
>> And, he doesn't like the talking inanimates, Pynchon's humor, prose,
>> irony, characters, digressions, evasive incoherence.
>>
>> He claims that Pynchon  uses allegory to hide the truth, and in so
>> doing, turns allegory into a fetish of itself. He divides
>> Pynchon's readers--made by the author--as those that think
>> him a great occultist, and those that think him a visited
>> hoaxer. Pynchon's novels only call attention to their own
>> signification, "which hang without reference, pointing like
>> a severed arm to nowhere in particular."
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