tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post2066913674693722920..comments2023-10-26T22:06:11.166+11:00Comments on Metamagician3000: Currently reading: Against the Day by Thomas PynchonRussell Blackfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12431324430596809958noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-2272832670429913732011-06-07T04:46:22.262+10:002011-06-07T04:46:22.262+10:00One of my faves. What an unexpected treat, esp for...One of my faves. What an unexpected treat, esp for such an old man. :)<br /> I had about wrtten TP off and was very pleased to find that 'ATD' is, imo, his best work, certainly his tightest-plotted.<br />Interesting that it came out in 2006, same year as David Lynch's 'Inland Empire', with which it shares a'bardo' quality.<br />Transitons, where , when and how they occur, being a major theme in both works. Also common to both is the use of parody to indicate when the 'world shift' occurs; try calculating the page number on which these happen in ATD using the'Q' method, hammered home repeatedly in the text, like a skeleton key to the novel as the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead' is to Lynch's film. <br />Best Of Fortune,<br /> Carlcarlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07177252137876173884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24761391.post-75394009095797036322011-01-18T03:12:40.770+11:002011-01-18T03:12:40.770+11:00It occurs to me that our authorial recluses - Pync...It occurs to me that our authorial recluses - Pynchon is a good example; Salinger, perhaps, another - might one day be subject to the kind of theories that William Shakespeare is today. Who <i>really</i> penned <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i>? Was it "JD Salinger" who wrote <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i> or was it, say, a young Jack Kerouac. Interestingly such rumours have already circulated: people used to claim Truman Capote wrote <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i>.BenSixhttp://bensix.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com