Speaking of conspiracy and paranoia

[Markekohut]

Right. ...I'm backing into the obvious but to me it was his emphasis on the Anti-Paranoia bit
Of Slothrop's and its alignment with Oedipa's quest....how anti-paranoia was worse......

How,if we have to know, it is better we know BAD SHIT than think the bad shit is meaninglessly
There.....



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On Mar 13, 2014, at 4:34 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

> 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..
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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..
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad-
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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