NP but Nixon

[Bled Welder]

I think, that, unadulterated criticism of The Rainbow, is really okay.

It is, after all, an unadulterated critical work.

p.490

"It was always easy for men to come and tell her who to be...."

That's *such* a dull boring cliche.  Was that like, hip, to say shit like
that, circa 1970?  Or is it a parody?  Was The Rainbow, a forerunner, of
some sort?  Was it transcending something?  Or is it just, clever?

Does Pynchon really know anything about transcendence?

Who are the They?  Them?

My good friend Lee asked who's going to write Pynchon's biography.  I will.

That day in 1963 the young cat toking a dube, suddenly gravity's rainbow *
everywhere*, then it really hits him, the Underworld, he gets this mother
of all fucking ideas:  "The They."


On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

> On 1/21/2013 10:28 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> The Cinematic Imagination in Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"
>> Antonio Marquez
>>
>> Pynchon's Endings
>> Richard Pearce
>>
>> Two of interest to this idea that Nixon and Nixon-Land are not after
>> thoughts, or simply tagged on to a European War Novel or whatever.
>>
>>
>
> Good additions to the discussion.
>
> The tagged on (or tacked on) feeling I got from the ending shouldn't be
> interpreted as an unadulterated criticism.
>
> I was thinking mainly about how the book must have developed in the
> author's mind and at his desk.
>
> History, after all,  is one damn (tagged on) thing after another. (not
> saying the past isn't prologue or anything like that)
>
> P
>
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