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Title: A Physicist Is An Atom's Way To Know It Self
Review: Pynchon has great talent, but this is all. Too often many of us confuse talent with genius. I prefer to elevate under appreciated works like, The Man Without Qualities; better yet listen to Berg or Varese. The "Theory" of Post-Modernism is just the playing out of inovations stipulated by the "Modernist" movment in The Western classical music tradicion (either that or Mallerme and Duchamp). Unfortuantly the Dutch language is under appreciated. If you can find a translation (or know Dutch), read J.C. Bloem. I was prompted to set this review by going over other ones present here. I must say out of them all, I think the best remark was the fictious paper title:"Finnegan's Wake: I Understood the Whole Thing". All and all, I find Post-Modernism highly bankrupt. I for one get tierd of read some architectonic work about the "qoutidian" world (Pynchon fits in here). And by the way Tom, that recluse act was best done by a more entertaining author, B. Traven.
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