Speaking of conspiracy and paranoia

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This isn't, you know, a staggering insight.


Steps back mentally to CofL49 also with this thought, I.e. that Oedipa had to 
find out if the Trystero was real ( in History) or.......whether all the 
mysterious events around her were random..






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From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 12:39 pm
Subject: Speaking of conspiracy and paranoia


Browsed in an essay by Leo Bersani on GR, in one of the books of essays on 
Pynchon. He makes one v. Interesting literary historical point and offers us one 
challenge to discuss. 

1) He says that GR is the first major work of Literature which is structured 
with the notion of paranoia, the word is used lotsa times and reflected on by 
Slothrop. He says before GR, the word had only clinical psychological meanings, 
basically, which meaning TRP knows and uses but TRP also extends the meaning 
metaphorically in the novel

2) he argues, whether ultimately or as debbil's advocate, dunno, that when 
Slothrop avers that 
Maybe everything wasn't connected, but random, that THAT is the worse horror in. 
GR. 
Steps back mentally to CofL49 also with this thought, I.e. that Oedipa had to 
find out if the Trystero was real ( in History) or.......whether all the 
mysterious events around her were random..




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