Pynchon synchronicity learned today

[rich]

Me too in the traditional way but many make their own families which is
just as good. I don't fault the family centric mind set. Heck being Italian
American its in the DNA. I don't fault Pynchon for the feeling which I'm
behind; its solely the aesthetic bummer the later books give me; we get
maybe a few glimpses of the spark in IV and even less in BE. What's next
Oprah?

On Friday, December 5, 2014, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I'm lucky enough to have a wonderful family, but I know too many who
> don't. Pynchon's relatively late marriage/fatherhood does seem to have
> affected his subsequent works, which are marred by the "in the end,
> family's all ya got" Hallmark-ish sentiment (though M&D seems to emphasize
> friendship more than family). ATD has a more complex view of family
> structure, but at the end it's still the Chums of Chance and their
> new-found family status. The family thing seems a little more pointed: get
> your shit together and get familied. It somehow implies that we can make
> the world better by focussing on our personal connections. Keep cool but
> care may be an earlier incarnation of that. But don't think either attitude
> is expressed in either COL49 or GR. Those books tell us to keep looking
> outward.
>
> Laura
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
>
> >There was some great talk here years and years ago about how even the
> >"keep cool but care" of V. was early Pynchon grappling with the issue
> >and trying to come up with a system for living that might work, but
> >that it felt mawkish and out-of-place given how thoroughly he would
> >later reject any such universal notions. Maybe he embraced the
> >possibility that you can live a great life without imposing any
> >absolute order on it. Also part of the reason some have found fault
> >with the later family-centric novels, as if he is shrugging and saying
> >"in the end, family's all ya got."
>
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