more Crying.

[Mark Kohut]

Pynchonian koans:

Is Pynchon a modernist writer or postmodernist?
In The Crying of Lot 49 the ending sez Yes.

Is the Trystero real or imagined in The Crying of Lot 49?
Yes.

a couple critics in one of Bloom's book of essays about Pynchon
allude to an essay which argues that the overarching symbolic form
of The Crying of Lot 49 is whether Oedipa's quest is metaphoric
or literal. The essay writer sez Yes....THAT is the theme, the meaning of
the mysterious ending.....

and another explores
that Yes linguistically (kinda literally) via Lakoff on metaphor.

Tony Tanner called it one the most deceptive and most brilliant short
novels since the
last war. "Oedipa is mentally in a world of "if and "perhaps' walking thru
an accredited world of
'either/or' "[that excluded middle motif]"..
Focuses on the line that she would have revelations "about what remained
yet had somehow, before this, stayed away"....
Sez THAT describes the ending in its exactness.

What a book.
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