Kathryn Hume's other Pynchon stuff

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Fri Sep 14 05:04:22 CDT 2012


Yes, yes. It's Flabbulous! And he wrote it just for me!

btw:

I've been working on a post, perhaps a series of posts, on the math 
angle(s) in Pynchon- a topic near and dear- but it has really begun to 
assume monstrous proportions, not unlike: The Adenoid. Did you know 
that The Adenoid is capable of reproducing an entire body from some 
small, as yet uncertain minimal amount of its original slimy self? So 
be careful. Don't try cutting it up into little pieces! Good God! We'd 
become inundated. Forgive me. I'm just waiting for the ibuprofen to 
kick in so I can take my morning jog.

Couple- three previews:  the first hint of quaternions in the texts 
(hint, hint- Oedipa on the tracks). A comparison of the death of Anton 
Webern with that of Archimedes. Francois Viete, instead of Gregorius 
Saint-Vincent, as the identity (love that word) of the man in the 
"slouch" hat- in M&D, as the boys are waiting on the dock for the 
packet to sail back home. And, one not even directly related to 
Pynchon, but a p-list tangent- the possible figurative relationship 
between David Hilbert and Rectall Brown.

That's just the tip of the fractal.

Later.


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From: malignd <malignd at aol.com>
To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Sep 12, 2012 4:07 pm
Subject: Re: Kathryn Hume's other Pynchon stuff


Must disagree.  Although this is rich in images, it reads to me very 
sentimental and self-consciously poetic.  The girls the boys the 
chickens the hogs and heifers the farms the towns the blue birds, the 
Lizas and Chastinas etc. -- all straining-to-be-evocative plurals.  Not 
one observation of a single concrete image. 







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