Cutting Edge

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On Jan 9, 2013, at 10:24 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> isn't it a major theme, or the major theme in Pynchon, those
> passed-over, left out, outisde the firelight campfire, at the border
> if u will between in and out but just coming up short? I think Pynchon
> loves these lovable losers, Tchicherine, Zoyd, Frank Traverse, DL,
> Mooneyes, Sportello, Oedipa, Yashmeen, the list is endless
> 
> I don't see a sci-fi steampunk book coming--he's done steampunk but
> all his books are bleeding edge books in a way--the distant past, the
> present, the near future but not much beyond. a full setting in the
> future would seem to lose something essential to Pynchon I think but
> Pynchon being Pynchon I suppose he can pull it off.
> 
> rich
> 
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Heikki Raudaskoski
> <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Good catch.
>> 
>> 
>> There are also two (quite paranoid) "leading edge" passages in GR which are
>> worth mentioning IMO.
>> 
>> 
>> "Like other sorts of paranoia, it is nothing less than the onset, the
>> leading edge, of the discovery that *everything is connected*, everything in
>> the Creation, a secondary illumination - not yet blindingly One, but at
>> least connected, and perhaps a route In for those like Tchitcherine who are
>> held at the edge...." (Viking, 703)
>> 
>>   "'Surveillance?' Roger is fidgeting heavily, with his hair, his necktie,
>> ears, nose, knuckles, 'IG Farben had Slothrop under surveillance? Before the
>> War? What *for*, Gloaming.'
>>   'Odd, isn't it?' Cheerio *boing* out the door without another word,
>> leaving Roger alone with a most disagreeable light beginning to grow, the
>> leading edge of a revelation, blinding, crescent, at the periphery of his
>> brain. IG Farben, eh?" (631)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Heikki
>> 
>> 
>> Quoting David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com>:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Not _The Bleeding Edge_, but from GR (Penguin Classic edition), page 581:
>>> 
>>> "They kept the German Wobbly traditions, they didn't go along with  Hitler
>>> though all the other unions were falling into line. It  touches Slothrop's
>>> own Puritan hopes for the Word, the Word made  printer's ink, dwelling along
>>> with antibodies and iron-bound breath  in a good man's blood, though the
>>> World for him be always the World  on Monday, with its cold cutting edge,
>>> slicing away every poor  illusion of comfort the bourgeois takes for
>>> real..."
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