Re: Alan Moore’s _Jerusalem_

[Mark Kohut]

Very fine stuff.

My publisher friend told me that all of Moore's handlers, protectors were
Northampton guys. He's a loyal type it seems.



On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:46 PM peterthooper at juno.com <peterthooper at juno.com>
wrote:

> There actually is an explication blog,
>
> https://alanmoorejerusalem.wordpress.com/alan-moore-annotations-index/
>
> It’s got few actual entries but a goodly amount of info in the comments
> section below the empty outline points.
>
> Remember blogs? In terms of Procrustean content modification and
> freestanding vs embeddedness, least to most, it’s probably websites, wikis,
> blogs, instafacetwit...
> Or wikis then websites?
>
> Comparisons are odious, it’s been said -
> To avoid that, maybe I can claim to be inspired by Deleuze on
> difference/repetition -
>
> Difference maybe Moore is a bit more present (and puts more
> self-referential, things referring to the work, that is - stuff like the
> exhibition recap) in the work; he uses in Northampton the AtD treatment P
> used on the whole world, so, smaller geographic focus; his Chums (the Dead
> Dead Gang) are ghosts of kids rather than whatever the Chums are; his
> spiritual linkage is to the mystical yet rational-tending Protestants of
> England rather than P’s (what one lister - John Krafft? - once called)
> sea-changed Catholicism; advancing overtly while questioning the thesis
> that art changes things; and Moore’s rag-and-bone shop is (obviously) the
> horror/supernatural themes of his comics rather than the detective/spy
> matrix Pynchon often uses and subverts
>
> Repetition - by which I mean fruitful extension rather than rote copying -
> elements might be discursiveness, historical grounding, wordplay,
> erudition, blending of high and low culture.
>
> Still like P better.
>
> But - Moore’s a heckuva writer.
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> To: "peterthooper at juno.com" <peterthooper at juno.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <Pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: Alan Moore’s _Jerusalem_
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 05:47:05 -0500
>
> Misc.: knowing the publisher, I tried to get a wiki of this book, like,
> the Pynchon wiki, set up. Moore's handlers were nottoo interested, it
> seemed, although the publisher said they were not the easiest to deal with.
> I took that to mean more defensively againstthan open to a comparative
> conversation.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 3:36 AM peterthooper at juno.com <
> peterthooper at juno.com> wrote:
> Bounteously good, imho.
> He’s not Pynchon, but who is?
>
> It’s packed with history. There’s an overarching theory of time, so it’s
> got that going for it. In the acknowledgements he thanks “the concept of
> death, and the English novel.”
> He thinks the Adam Smith concept of the Invisible Hand and Blake’s Dark
> Satanic Mills were inspired by the same mill in Northampton. Cookin’ place,
> from what he describes!
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