Hi Evrybahdy!

Mark Thibodeau jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
Sun Jun 4 01:02:39 CDT 2017


Welcome!

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 3:49 PM, da kid <peterock86 at live.com> wrote:

> Hi I've been reading the p-list archives for a little while now and admire
> the ideas of alot of the people here. Entries by Andrew Dinn, John Bailey,
> Doug Millison among many others are Imho far better than New Yorker or NYT
> essays for understanding​ TRP's books. I have tried to talk about Pynchon
> on Reddit but I rarely ever encounter anyone who really wants to dive into
> the text. So, I am excited to hopefully discuss some of the theories and
> whatnot that have been bugging me for awhile. Pynchon's ubiqui-themes like:
>
>    Ourobouros through the ring
>
> Magenta and green specifically and his hangup with particular shades
> pigments in general.
>
>   Holograms/Layers
>   His "cartoonish" characterization that Chrissie Wexler refers to in
> Lineland.
>
> Vibrating to stay invisible (CoC & Inconvenience, the revealing of America
> in M&D)
>
>   The Eucharist
>    The Holy Ghost and the Pentecost
>
> as well as my pet theories about the Hairy Ball Theorem in M&D and Donald
> Barthelme as Dixon. I could keep rambling on but I'll stop for now.
>
> Anyways, I hope to get to the bottom of all this malarkey and reveal the
> authors perverse schemes once and for all...
>
> Pete
>
>
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