Pynchon has read the Wake, this guy thinks...

[David Morris]

Amen to that!

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 6:44 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> And if this doesn't project the opening scene of Gravity's Rainbow, what
> does?
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> "I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and
> time one livid final flame. What's left of us then? --James Joyce, Ulysses
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> On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 12:06 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I remember an an article quoting a GR-period acquaintance (?),  saying
>> Pynchon had expressed his goal for GR to equal Ulysses with the scholarly
>> crowd.
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>> On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 11:59 AM jody2.718 via Pynchon-l <
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>> > Well, yeah, but a little more basic consideration of the Joyce/Pynchon
>> > connection might start with a comparison of Dubliners and the Slow
>> Learner
>> > collection; or even The Secret Integration and Ulysses. What could be
>> more
>> > indicative of a literary integration than that elongated S of "Stately,
>> > plump Buck Mulligan...," beginning the process of integrating 20 years
>> of
>> > wondering into a day in the life?
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