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

[ish mailian]

FWIW, check out Brown on Islam. The Koran, Brown asserts, is "creative
creation."

The Apocalypse of Islam, Norman O. Brown

*The Challenge of Islam: The Prophetic Tradition*.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:58 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Repression's Rainbow: The Presence of Norman O. Brown in Pynchon's Big
> Novel
> Lawrence C. Wolfley
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:25 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>>> 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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