That Revenge Drama in Lot 49.

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 23.12.2018 um 12:01 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> So bloody violent. Meanings? Is this History; is this the unverifiable
> text that is the transmission of History?  The inherent vice of Human
> Nature, which we must go beyond--if we can? History as Jacobean
> revenge drama, Hegelianism as Titus Andronicus: History as the Marquis
> de sade?
> 
> Think of Lot 49, Pynchon and The Word. The religious, leaning
> Catholic, obsession thru the fiction to AGAINST THE DAY, w Mark's
> gospel. Think of the gnosticism
> reading(s), finds, allusions of Pynchon.


Probably. But mainly it is very, very funny.