Google Alert - Pynchon

Tue Aug 1 21:49:01 CDT 2017

OK, I'll give it a shot.

Finished 1st 2 seasons of Twin Peaks.  Mostly high/low buffoonery.  The
last few episodes were mostly lame. I wanted contex for Retutn.

Return is better, iMH.  But it should be.  It feels like Tarantino
sometimes, the bodies and G-talk...

David Morris

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 9:23 PM Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let me just evangelize for *Mumbo Jumbo *as enthusiastically as I can. (I
> believe Morris especially would dig this book and the things it entangles,
> if he hasn't/you haven't read it.)
>
> There are some spiritual, tonal, thematic resonances between *MJ *and *GR
> *that make former worthy of the interest and attention of everyone on
> this list. Plus it's fucking great. Radical. Ambitious. Very smart. Has
> that Pynchon quality of seeming to stand up on a kind of transtemporal dais
> and look at/speak to all of history, even the stuff that happens between
> pub. date and reader, that happens in front of pub. date and reader both.
> Plus it has not been sufficiently attended to by most of the cultures I've
> interacted with. It will endure, I sincerely believe. Also it's not a long
> book by any means, so you don't have much excuse.
>
> Some more evangelizing:
>
> *MJ* was given to me by an old teacher, mentor emeritus, friend. Writer
> (as he says, in the griotic tradition), prophet, and hoodoo witch doctor
> Arthur Rickydoc Flowers. He taught a class--one of the best experiences of
> my life--in hoodoo literature. Farther down this what might be a rabbit
> hole to some: Arthur's *Another Good Loving Blues *and other titles, Gayl
> Jones (*Corregidora *is a great and short book, almost reminds me of
> Denis Johnson; *The Healing*), Patrick Chamoiseau (*Texaco *another big
> ambitious book for those of you who might have acquired that taste), Gloria
> Naylor (*Mama Day*).
>
> Arthur's also a very powerful storyteller and performer. It's so moving to
> see him in person. Experience him in the links below, read his work, demand
> he be as in-print as possible.
>
> (In the second vid the performance starts at 2:30)
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9uE9-4xmtM
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGzEhnf7dfM
>
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If good enough for Pynchon to name-check, it is good enough to have grown
>> in
>> literary stature and become a 'classic' [name-check]
>>
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>> Mumbo Jumbo: a dazzling classic finally gets the recognition it deserves
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