Not "novel of ideas" but what was blowing in the Wind

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Dec 14 21:25:57 CST 2015


The book that most helped me find resonance with GR was Norman O. Brown's
"Life Against Death." Clearly it was a yuuuge influence on P. For GR.

David Morris


On Monday, December 14, 2015, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> That book helped me immensely after reading GR. It is great for folks like
> me who require the cultural and historical context of the novel without
> having to follow along reading every single annotation from that other
> weisenberger book or the wiki. Helped me to understand the major
> intellectual discourse from the "long 60s" as well providing further
> context. I think it was last year or the year before when i first finished
> GR, after joining the list, read this book immediately after, then re-read
> GR again not too long after that. If I were reading GR for a college course
> I think Domination and Freedom would be an excellent companion or aperitif
> for students.
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:41 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ishmailian at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Before, during, and after GR.
>>
>> The novel of ideas is too confusing to me. I find that most definitions
>> are loaded up with negative adjectives and that it does more harm than
>> good.
>>
>> I like the thread that considers how America produced a different fiction
>> from Europe.
>>
>> In this review, some good stuff.
>>
>> https://www.pynchon.net/articles/10.7766/orbit.v2.2.114/
>>
>
>
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