M & D Duck Read: still thinking on Mason.

[alice malice]

Not Puritan but typical of his sect at the time, Academic and
Pragmatic. Though Mason exhibits what was considered a dangerous
enthusiasm, he tempers it, though it haunts him, causing him, at times
to Quake. So our boys are entwined, both Pragmatic Mystics, one by
choice, that is Dixon, the other by haunt and wind and history.

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is "Puritanism" the word you want?
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Overdetermined, that Freudian concept. Why does Pynchon stress Mason's
>> grief so hard? Why is his Puritanism as defining repeated? Does over
>> determinism apply?,
>> I think it might....so, taking my cue from TRP on tendril, I
>> looked it up to see if I understood it and learned this,
>> over determinedly as well, along with Freud's notion.
>>
>>
>> The New Critic I. A. Richards used the idea of overdetermination in
>> order to explain the importance of ambiguity in rhetoric, the
>> philosophy of language, and literary criticism.
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>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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