M & D Deep Duck Read. That wonderful Card Table

[Dave Monroe]

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On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> p. 6. Then to the almost-famous Card Table. Discuss its
> self-referential metaphoric discription, if it is? ..make sure you
> incorporate  'sinister'...and "illusion of Depth" as well as Wand'ring
> Heart and all those 'sliding Mortises'. ...
>
> [ if I remember aright, in a letter when young to an earnest scholar
> trying to figure out Pynchon's meanings re entropy, etc. he said, it
> [meaning] was all there on the surface. In Slow Learner he wrote of
> using that concept [entropy] but when he learned more about it, he
> couldn't understand it anymore. I have interpreted his 'on the
> surface' remark as a way to say, read the text, it's all there, follow
> the language, think through the metaphors and you will 'get' my books.
>
> Yet, there's more, there's more, always more there.
>
> On the surface, just like any great writer who is not a novelist of
> ideas, yet the 'sliding Mortises' line shows his layering on.layering
> in, of meanings. Lasagna novels in lyrical poetry form.
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