The Crying of Lot 49 Group Read 2024

[Michael Bailey]

Thanks for doing that!

Looking forward to maybe another read sometime - hope your personal
projects are going well - and thanks again!

On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 8:23 AM J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> Hopefully this link will work.
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> https://drive.google.com/file/d/10q8VH0ro6ZQERExTgCbTzjdii7P9eM5F/view?usp=drivesdk
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> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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> On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 08:17, J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> Sorry for my disappearance, I had some personal matters that had to be
> addressed.
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> I have been building the whole group read minus the scheduling issues.
> It’s complete, and I will add it to the CoL49 wiki as an extra page since
> there are many entries that provide great research that people in this
> group compiled.
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> Before I did, I wanted to let everyone have a chance to look it over. So
> I’m attaching a pdf of it here. If that doesn’t work, I’ll link it thru
> Google Drive.
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> I also have some final thoughts that I’ll post later.
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> To everyone who contributed, thank you! You’ve all improved my
> understanding of the book specifically and Pynchon generally.
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> In solidarity,
> James
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> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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> On Saturday, August 17, 2024, 08:20, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Ok, we all know of the card Teacher Baxter Hathaway
> sent to creative writing student Thomas Pynchon when he
> was very late to turning in any writing per the class assignments:
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> "Shit or Get Off" or suchlike of a man straining on the toilet....
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> So, this longer threatened piece of mine on the end of Crying of Lot 49,
> riffing/"analysing",
> will be broken into shorter turds.....
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> Here are some words on, contra Mr Van Nort, the sublime beauty,
> cohesive thematic widening embracive meaning of the ending of Lot 49. IMO
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> First here is James Wood on the ending of Richard Linklater's* Before
> Sunset:*
> What most interested me, however, was that it was a film improved by a
> beautiful ending, so that as soon as it was over it began to seem a better
> film than it had seemed while it was running. (And this wasn't just because
> it was over...) Jesse has agreed to go to Celine's apartment. She puts on a
> particularly lovely Nina Simone song, "Just in Time", and dances along to
> it. Suddenly she turns to Jesse and says, "Baby, you're going to miss that
> plane." Jesse shrugs, says: "I know," and then gives a foolish smile....
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> Chekhov-like, Wood avers....MK: all open endedness able to expand into so
> many possibilities
> that all the real and not-so in Lot 49, i.e. all those dropped religious
> allusions along with the full gamut of
> mysteries re the Trystero and all the words on America means......
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> Pychon has ended this novel about America in the mid-sixties capturing
> --with such compact
> writing density (as Joseph implied)--the incredible possibilities America
> was in 1966.....
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> This is what Oedipa is pregnant with.
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> This is why the Trystero is both revolutionary and counterrevolutionary;
> violent and a force for
> communicative peace in history. That is, that history is not ruled by the
> 'logic' of the excluded middle;
> that so much anarchic reality is beyond the binary; beyond all the known
> either-or rules....
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> That history lets in what is not determined, unknown as we await the
> crying.
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