Accounts secular and karmic

[alice wellintown]

Well, if we read Bartleby with the other mag stories we discover that all
were about work, work and failure. And, as the story was not published
under Melville's name because at this point in his career he was a failure,
we should do better to extend charity to a man who had far more talent than
Pynchon, but was married to a family that was generous, but not in the
business of marketing fiction. That P managed to recover from VL the bad,
and to spin out yarns that Melville would never stoop to (IV, SL
re-issued), and we suspect this BE will be another work of fart jokes and
licking old snatches, as he worked on his major romances is proof that
Recognition is often a business of counterfeiting, copying, doing what one
prefers not to, and that money makes an artist a whore.
On Sunday, April 14, 2013, wrote:

> Succintly put. For my money, however, Bartleby probably takes himself a
> little too seriously. On the other hand, he doesn't really seem like a
> character at all, more like an algorithm- blades of grass, indeed. As for
> the Pynch, knowledge that he's getting his advance and copping his
> percentage, is as good a defense as any against taking him too seriously.
> And I don't think he'd take any offense at that, on the way to the bank.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com <javascript:_e({},
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> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
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> Sent: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 1:45 pm
> Subject: Re: Accounts secular and karmic
>
>  The difference is clearly defined in several Pynchon essays,  and is, of
> course, a major theme in all of his novels. Although some readers will
> never quite get it because they refuse to accept the author's position,
> even when he spells it out for them in plain words,  a good place to start
> is with Pynchon's essay on Sloth.
> In the essay the author examines Melville's Bartleby and explains that the
> scrivener's sin against the economy was secular, but the sin of the lawyer
> against Bartleby, even if the soul is little more than a few blades of
> grass in the Tombs, is Karmic.
>
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> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> What's the difference, I'd like to know?
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