That Revenge Drama in Lot 49.

[Mark Kohut]

No, Pynchon is a great comic novelist with multiple ambiguities, as I say too often, I'm sure. 
The over-the-topness is a parody, some might argue, of Jacobean drama.

The scene with Dr. Hilarius is also funny and also contains some straight themes, I would say.

And, yes, the Jacobean revenge play is more intense, more compactly funny.

I meant it as I wrote it while trying for a semi-allusive ambiguity. 



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> On Dec 23, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 
> 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.