Hi Evrybahdy!
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 04:13:02 CDT 2017
One key point from this piece which resonates with later works for me is the insight into color as a way to overcome, as it were, the excluded middle. Color, the wide range of, is more possibility in the excluded middle analogy. The two most colorful, as in full of (more) colors, novels written after this piece was written are Inherent Vice and Against the Day, of course, with its light across the ranges, signaling, among other things, the breadth of color all the light in that book reveals.
All the possibilities, as IV showed the time of more possibilities.
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> On Jun 4, 2017, at 8:51 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Magenta & green, etc -- "Coloring Gravity's Rainbow", downloadable:
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> https://pynchonnotes.openlibhums.org/articles/abstract/10.16995/pn.374/
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>> 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:
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>> Ourobouros through the ring
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>> Magenta and green specifically and his hangup with particular shades pigments in general.
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>> Holograms/Layers
>> His "cartoonish" characterization that Chrissie Wexler refers to in Lineland.
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>> Vibrating to stay invisible (CoC & Inconvenience, the revealing of America in M&D)
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>> The Eucharist
>> The Holy Ghost and the Pentecost
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>> 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.
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>> Anyways, I hope to get to the bottom of all this malarkey and reveal the authors perverse schemes once and for all...
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>> Pete
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