Odds of another Pynchon novel

[David Morris]

Sounds like Alice to me.

On Monday, June 15, 2015, Qui Zael <quizael at gmail.com> wrote:

> Totally.  Nonsense.
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> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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>> 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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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>> Grateful Dead - Weather Report Suite (Studio Version)
>> <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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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