Pynchon--and me.

[Mark Kohut]

I just awoke from a Pynchon dream---of the text. I dreamed there
was a missing, therefore previously unread, chapter of Mason & Dixon
that was the secret to understanding it.

It was a list of the things one needed to know to understand it....I read
the list, fifteen or more items, of which the first was a picture of a/the
rocket.
With the word peenemunde another item. Albert Rolls' new book was another
(see W.A.S.T.E. on Facebook).

It ended with the items Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49. it was
a kind of scanned Table of Contents list. I can't remember other items.


my dream self-analysis. I reread Chap 20 of M & D last evening, preparing a
short post,
leaving my reading with the self-perception that the posted stuff on
fathers-sons
by Smoke and Joseph were kinda new to me. I neglected to feel/remember many
of the right thoughts,
I thought. Too personal, maybe (although I have had a wonderful felt
connection to the words
on the youths; a connection which fed the major thrust of my post--about
Pynchon and the creation of human character which
about all the reviewers loved--to be posted later.)

I read of Rolls' book cover yesterday. I, in this rereading, keep thinking
of textual connections
to the rest of his work--although this novel may be 'the most different'
AFTER Gravity's Rainbow, of
course. The ending of Lot 49 keeps reappearing as a mental trope to me, as
posts indicate.

I think that secret chapter of M & D is just the wish fulfillment that
there could be such with the
full felt awareness that his work is never finally finished being
understood. As they say about the greats.
Another short post on that to come.
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