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Project 101: "The Crying of Lot 49"

Feb 25, 2017 22:25

Thomas Pynchon was the David Foster Wallace of the 1960's-1970's, (although he has been writing strong as of 2013). He was a post-modernist, "thinking-man's hippie," I guess. His sprawling masterpiece was, Gravity's Rainbow, (1973), which explored such realms as: preterition, paranoia, racism, colonialism, conspiracy, synchronicity, and entropy, ( Read more... )

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erinfondue March 2 2017, 03:49:36 UTC

I have not read through this yet

But I have had both Lot 49 and Foster Wallace on my mind lately! I was imagining a postal based conspiracy where I was a pony express lady. And I actually sent someone an e-mail like two days ago with DFW in the subject line...

madman101 March 2 2017, 05:10:55 UTC

That's a bit intriguing. But, then, all this coincidence stuff is getting old hat by now, as the universe is only about as small as a cranium. I'm sure we have some kind of short circuit connecting our thoughts somehow - or its in the common static. I say do not let your imagination go to WASTE. That idea could be turned into a story.

All my top-heavy posts are always available to be read at the consumers leisure, and, until then, they sleep doggedly in my tags page. They are like my unfertilized children, in cold storage.

erinfondue March 2 2017, 05:17:17 UTC

Yeah, true story: people pretty much independently came up with genetics about the same time, with psychology about the same time, with the idea of the novel at about the same time... Hello, choir. :)

May the sea foam on, eh?

madman101 March 2 2017, 05:29:50 UTC

Yep. It is enough bother to be all entangled with siblings and their rivalry and imitations - when all of reality tends to be one big spider web. At least ideationally.

The movie I posted about was based on a German movie: Vincent Wants to Sea. I think Vincent was played by Foamy. (Woops - Apparently Foamy's site is gone). TILT.

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madman101 June 28 2021, 23:37:59 UTC

Well, one can't read everything, and that certainly applies to me. There are several authors I never get around to, like DF Wallace.

I don't really learn from other authors, so much. Instead of taking English, in college, I did majors in people/politics. I did that to help me learn more as a human-being writer - plus I might get a career in the U.N., or something.

At this point, I spend more time in generating thought than internalising it. Part of that is due to my CFS.

I hope you like Lot 49 - the short story with glandular problems. It's not spectacular sci fi. I like the W.A.S.T.E. conspiracy idea.