Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Qui Zael]

Totally.  Nonsense.


On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> GR may be read as an "answer" to the wasteland that is V.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Jun 15, 2015, at 6:16 PM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> GR may be read as an answer to Eliot's Wasteland
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> “the peace which passeth understanding,”
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> The joy that I Am!
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN6mjNMNytY
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> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> What makes these early novels so much better than the California books is
>> the Manichaeism beyond and, in GR, the Orphic Song, or the hymn to
>> scatterbrained Mother Nature's Grace, a force so mysterious only God knows
>> the measure of.
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>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:56 PM, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> They are tools that can be discarded. But what are the forces that use
>>> them? Brock has his funding cut, not by anything mysterious,  insidious, or
>>> monstrous, but by  government agency. Windust is a tool of government
>>> agency and its cumbersome and often ineffectual ventures with multinational
>>> business and agency.
>>>
>>> In contrast, in GR, the monstrous and insidious forces are invisible and
>>> mysterious, beyond the comprehension of, let alone, the reach of any
>>> coordinated counter cultural resistance.  The force is, for lack of a
>>> better term, as Dwight Eddins so artfully and elequantly describes it, a
>>> Gnostic Force. This force is born from Pynchon's readings of Adams and is
>>> the driving force or theme that makes V. a masterpiece first novel.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
>>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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>>>> "Brock? Windust? Not forces invisible, mysterious, insidious,
>>>> monstrous. Just here and now. So What? "
>>>>
>>>> Whatever else they may be, Vond and Windust are also tools of "forces
>>>> invisible, mysterious, insidious, monstrous." Tools which can be discarded
>>>> at any time.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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