CoL49 Group reading - more responsive responses

[David Morris]

On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 5:24 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> For a writer to tell us of NOT seeing, no one seeing,  a sunrise is a
> clever, maybe beautiful subversion of a romantic trope...imo.
>

Of course. And conceptual vision of the unobtainable, ineffable.

> 1) How do Mucho Maas' self-recriminations reflect an alternative
>> toOedipa's Tupperware world?
>>
>> He’s one of the many in the Schlemiel line. The noble loser.  They each
>> have specific flavors, eras, and sometimes gender.  Mucho and Oedipa are
>> both in the plastic hell-purgatory, and we don’t get the sense that either
>> one is on any fulfilling path. Both stuck in limbo until Oedipa is Pierced
>> from the other side of the Veil.
>>
>> Whet she accepts her quest, she graduates from the passive Schlemiel to
>> active Mensch, following a heroic path.  It might also be observed that
>> some Pynchon’s questing mensch become deranged, some transcendent.
>>
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