Fwd: Easter thesis

[Mark Kohut]

Or, headline just seen, won't be posted: 
MAGPIES LIVING IN BIGGER GROUPS ARE BRAINIER BIRDS. 

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> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> Date: April 1, 2018 at 8:08:16 AM EDT
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Easter thesis
> 
> The List resurrects itself. 
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> The PLIST works for Pynchon, as many don't for other writers, because
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> 1) P's work opens to Life so richly, much can be talked of relatedly. 
> 2) his rich ambiguity opens up dialogue. 
> 3) his Iceland-Spar-like vision of everything connecting and his anarchy of humanism at once, so to coin a perhaps lousy phrase, allows all the freedom to interpret, connect; is inherently self-organizing and anti-authoritarian--no Monitor, no Rules. Inherent anti-vice. 
> 4) A not too obvious vision of human self-growth, maybe?, leans toward "getting things right" ...or else. After all, he does to geniusness. 
> 5) if we participate, we sit naked like the Burning Man nude bicycle race. So to speak.
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