Re: 📄 "Thomas Pynchon, High Theory, and the Legacy of the Long Sixties" by David Letzler

Thu Dec 17 22:17:04 UTC 2020

This is a really great read, thanks Mark. I agree with some parts and take
issue with others, but that's also the tone of the review itself, which is
both critical and generous.
On the topic of The Bomb, by coincidence I read this week John Hersey's
Hiroshima in book form, though I've noticed it's available for free online.
Absolute must-read for anyone who hasn't. Very short, but it continues to
amaze me how the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki exist so thoroughly for
us as abstract notions without our knowing the lived details of those who
went through it. Hersey delivers a wealth of those, although I've just
ordered some writing from Japanese survivors who provide even more nuanced
testimonials.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 6:24 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was a comment to die for, he says hypocritically.
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:20 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I hope you didn't take my comment as snide or insulting. I meant only to
> > illuminate the comments of the author to whom you were referring, and not
> > you, yourself, my friend.
> >
> > I have this "thing", you see, about our civilizational clock being reset
> > the moment that all those infamous Hiroshima clocks stopped, at 8:15 AM
> on
> > August 6, 1945.
> >
> > That's when most, if not all, of the previous rules of the game... became
> > utter nonsense.
> >
> > Yours,
> > yer old pal Jerky
> > aka Mark T.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:59 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Ol Jerky mic drops me. Good one.
> >>
> >> My response, echoing the reviewer’s , reduces GR to a plot point where
> >> the Bomb did not fall on US.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Dec 17, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >> Tell that to the Japanese...
> >>
> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:11 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Some may like this academic nitpicking and supposed precision drilling
> on
> >>> Herman's and Weisenburger's Domination & Freedom.
> >>> I will only strongly object to what a great critic called the confusion
> >>> of
> >>> realms, as the writer seems to think that it matters to the book's
> >>> meaning
> >>> that the Bomb did not drop in real history.....
> >>>
> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> >>> From: PDF By David Letzler <updates at academia-mail.com>
> >>> Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:23 AM
> >>> Subject: 📄 "Thomas Pynchon, High Theory, and the Legacy of the Long
> >>> Sixties" by David Letzler
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> >>> In this review of Luc Herman and Steven Weisenburger's Gravity's
> Rainbow,
> >>> Domination and Freedom, I examine the legacy and limitations of the
> Long
> >>> Sixties worldview they bring to the book and ask how studies of
> >>> postmodern
> >>> literature might proceed forward.
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