in Which V. is mentioned. as original.

Mark Thibodeau jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
Thu Dec 3 09:12:39 CST 2015


Vineland Vineland Uber Alles!
On Dec 3, 2015 10:02 AM, "rich" <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> all i would claim is that GR belongs to the creative thrust that began
> with V. and ended with M&D. there are some bits in AtD worthy but the rest
> imho is fairly disposable
>
> rich
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> but no matter what one thinks of some of the later books,
>> Gravity's Rainbow HAS TO BE SEEN as, among much newness,
>> V. perfected, no?
>>
>> Gravity's Rainbow is V. squared.
>>
>> and, didn't Pynchon avoid Parks' basic criticism by writing
>> SO MANY DIFFERENT new books....
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:34 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > w/r/t to Pynchon I think there's some merit to that criticism
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> self-derivative, repetitive,
>> >> in some way inferior to the first bursts of the writer's vision.
>> >>
>> >
>>
>
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