And NOWHERE is Pynchon mentioned!

[ish mailian]

Are there novels, plays, poems...is there a literature without ideas? I
don't want anything, other than money and beautiful men, thrown at me. But
when it comes to tales I love yarn threaded through with ideas, allegorical
figures and microcosms even. Take P's Entropy. Not a bad tale all in all. A
youthful exploration in an idea story. So many of the so-called set-pieces
in the novels are stories built on, from, and around ideas. I think it was
Nabokov who admonished that weak readers love to see their own ideas
dressed up in clever disguises.  Something like that. Call me weak. Ideas
make me swoon, like raining men, I just can't get enough of them.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's so great about a novel of ideas? Who wants to have a bunch of
> ideas and ideals thrown at them, in a novel anyway? Do ideas make the world
> go round? Well, maybe, but I can form my own ideas, at least for the
> purpose of novel reading. Pynchon is a novelist of historical events,
> invention and language.
>
> Or maybe not.
>
> P
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> P
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> On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/books/review/whatever-happened-to-the-novel-of-ideas.html?ref=review&_r=1
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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