Odds of another Pynchon novel
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 21:28:05 CDT 2015
The reason that GRs "They" is so mythical is that he always remembers that
They is Pogo's Us. It is immediately a much smaller realm of contemplation
when They are wholly the Other.
David Morris
On Monday, June 15, 2015, Jerome Park <jeromepark3141 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
>> "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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