Siege Party at Gatsby's (WAS- Re: 60s..cultural turn inward?)

[Markekohut]

ROFL...thanks. 

I still like the other slant on that hugely "ambiguous" poetic writer, TRP, that bandwraith has brought forward.......postmodern, schmo modern, Stencil IS trying to figure out V. too....

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On Apr 7, 2013, at 10:22 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> The reason that Stencil refers to himself as Stencil is obvious enough since the author tells us that Stencil is a parodic character, a parody of Henry Adams. Though the P-Industry has cast Stencil in the role of postmodern character, aware of his two dimensional existence, this casting is projection, often a projection that applies the theory of postmodern deaths, death of character, plot, etc....not willing to, or not able to abide the total uselessness of their Educations, they, like Robert Graves, hunt the albino in the sewer and shoot themselves in the ass.
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> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:40 AM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>> The secular miracle continues, and despite the usual pejorative connotations, continues to make progress. Inwardness is a social phenomenon as well as an individual journey; who are we as much as who am I. Sharing literary experiences is one way of making the journey more interesting. For awhile I have wondered- what is the plot of V.? Finally it occurred to me that at least part of the answer to that question is the recognition that Herbert Stencil is asking the same question, and for many of the same reasons.
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>> Herbert, however, seems to have the good sense and self-awareness to guess that he is a fictional character in a two dimensional world. Why else would he refer to himself as "he"? So, he may be further along than many of us, at least in terms of self-actualization.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Sent: Sat, Apr 6, 2013 3:04 pm
>> Subject: Fwd: 60s..cultural turn inward?
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>> re Pynchon and his theme of inwardness.....
>> 
>> I have been thinking of how hard it may be to feel the lack of inwardness by most in the culture
>> In the time before (my/our) time, since we swam in the inwardness....
>> 
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