Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Jerome Park]

Who does Pynchon write for? Were BE and IV written for the same audience? I
think so, How about AtD and M&D? A different audience. I sense that VL is
somewhere between these two. The shift after GR is most obvious in VL and
IV and BE. The Great American novels, M&D and AtD are what I hope Pynchon
will continue to produce and publish, but it's obvious that time is limited
and such works are longer projects so, but the California project, and BE,
are a lind of Return, something the other novels satirize even as they seem
to flirt with nostalgia parodically...so here's hoping for a massive
masterpiece again.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:13 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems to me that Pynchon is much more explicit in the post-GR collection
> in portioning out blame, without the clutter of a mystical detective puzzle
> scaffold: Reagan, the FBI, Republicans, penises, the LAPD and police of all
> stripes, Microsoft, plutocrats of all stripes, and all intimate
> complications within the Beltway. i.e. the lines of good and bad are more
> sharply drawn (M&D retained much of that mystical which is why I don't
> include in this collection. We really dont know who They/M is though we
> know the East India Co has a few members). That's what I mean by a more
> direct style. the GR template is only my conceit for  the scaffolding. I
> also say all this acknowledging how these two threads are ever connected,
> despite the ostensible break and that there isnt anything wrong or
> necesarily lesser in the later works (Pynchon hasnt lost that voice): I
> would only argue such directness, aesthetically, dilutes while it instructs
> (sorta like comparing early REM to late REM)
>
>
>
> rich
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:41 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I, too, wish you would elaborate on these two points, Direct Style and GR
>> Template.  Masters Thesis sounding titles.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>> On Friday, June 12, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Friend Rich,
>>> [...]
>>> And, I do not understand what " the new direct style" even IS per your
>>> reference. later works " more direct in style" than GR???....
>>>
>>> How, tell me, is AtD based on a GR template, which is Wha ????
>>>
>>
>
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