That Revenge Drama in Lot 49.

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 05:25:04 CST 2018


Yeah, more hilarious than Dr. Hilarious. 

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> On Dec 23, 2018, at 6:15 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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.


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