Odds of another Pynchon novel

[Jerome Park]

Agreed. So what can we make of this? The California books plus Bleeding
Edge, or what we might call the shorter works, are written in a very
different style, and, if we apply my simple rhetorical triangle, and the
idea of distance, we can speculate that the shorter works, sometimes called
Pynchon-Lite or whatever, were composed for a different audience, dare I
say market?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Religious and mythical vs. political forces? The
> political/economical/technological aspect has always been part of it ("I
> need my night's blood, my funding (...)"). But yes, the shorter novels are
> more overtly political and the "Gnostic" aspect is toned down. THEY are
> more concretely identified with government agency -- or, more to the point,
> the agency of hidden forces within and outside the government (e.g. the
> cabals who brought us Paperclip, Iran-Contra and Latin American death
> squads).
>
>
>
> Am 16.06.2015 um 00:56 schrieb Jerome Park:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
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