The Crying of Lot 49 Group Read 2024

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, J K, thank you for the wholeness....and thank all who contributed....

On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 6:40 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/10q8VH0ro6ZQERExTgCbTzjdii7P9eM5F/view?usp=drivesdk
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, August 20, 2024, 08:17, J K Van Nort via Pynchon-l <
> > pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Sorry for my disappearance, I had some personal matters that had to be
> > addressed.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I also have some final thoughts that I’ll post later.
> >
> > To everyone who contributed, thank you! You’ve all improved my
> > understanding of the book specifically and Pynchon generally.
> >
> > In solidarity,
> > James
> >
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
> >
> >
> > On Saturday, August 17, 2024, 08:20, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > "Shit or Get Off" or suchlike of a man straining on the toilet....
> >
> > So, this longer threatened piece of mine on the end of Crying of Lot 49,
> > riffing/"analysing",
> > will be broken into shorter turds.....
> >
> > Here are some words on, contra Mr Van Nort, the sublime beauty,
> > cohesive thematic widening embracive meaning of the ending of Lot 49. IMO
> >
> > 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....
> >
> > 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......
> >
> > 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.....
> >
> > This is what Oedipa is pregnant with.
> >
> > 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....
> >
> > That history lets in what is not determined, unknown as we await the
> > crying.
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