CoL49 Creeping Horror

[Mark Kohut]

After reading Pynchon then retiring shaped more than half of my later life
reading, I'd say. Yes.

On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 11:06 AM J K Van Nort <jkvannort at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> One of the joys of reading Pynchon for me has to be all the reading I find
> to add to my understanding of his work. Thanks for turning me onto Mumford.
>
> This aligns also with Henry Adams’ the dynamo and the virgin construction
> of the forces behind human civilization and power.
>
> In solidarity,
>
> James
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> On Saturday, June 1, 2024, 19:30, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Theoretical abstractionism resonates with me in this way....The world
> moving away from the felt organic reality of the human community...
> Lewis Mumford, with some circumstantial evidence that TRP read some of
> him, tackled this, I think.....and V becoming a non-organic being
> adumbrates it in V..maybe?
>
> This interpretative theme, if correct, shows its thematic chops fully,
> almost fulsomely, in ATD I say.
>
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 1:35 PM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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> Mark posted:"Sure he was against industrial capitalism. So are we. Didn't
> it lead, inevitably, to Marxism? Underneath, both are part of the same
> creeping horror"
>
> > What is the underlying truth of both of them? A theoretical
> abstractionism? ...is that the creeping horror?Here we have Blake's
> contraries blending into synthesis. One ideology in antithesis of the other
> synthesizing into a creeping horror humanity continues to perpetuate
> through war, consumption, externalities. All our idealism oozing into
> degradation and corruption.Just a thought.In solidarity,James
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