That Revenge Drama in Lot 49.

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Sun Dec 23 15:38:31 CST 2018


I take this to mean that you don't find "The Courier's Tragedy" funny at 
all?

Am 23.12.2018 um 12:25 schrieb Mark Kohut:
> Yeah, more hilarious than Dr. Hilarious.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> 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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