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Systems and essays.
Apr. 14th, 2003 03:01 amAs my procrastination yawns precipitously close to the chasm of total life disaster, I thought I would duplicate previous efforts and start rambling here in order to help me get my thoughts in order for a more proper essay.
As it is, I find it unfortunately ironic that in trying to formulate an essay about the treatment of systems in post-modern novels I find myself completely unable to formulate a coherent, systematic viewpoint. Ironic and oh-so PoMo (that should really be all one hyphen. OSoPoMo.) But in any case, that's the general topic: the treatment and presence of 'systems' in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying Of Lot 49 and Don DeLillo's White Noise. If you haven't read either of these novels, you will find the rambling to follow even less interesting than the usual disorganized mess of thoughts.
( You down with entropy? (Yeah, you know me!) )
As it is, I find it unfortunately ironic that in trying to formulate an essay about the treatment of systems in post-modern novels I find myself completely unable to formulate a coherent, systematic viewpoint. Ironic and oh-so PoMo (that should really be all one hyphen. OSoPoMo.) But in any case, that's the general topic: the treatment and presence of 'systems' in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying Of Lot 49 and Don DeLillo's White Noise. If you haven't read either of these novels, you will find the rambling to follow even less interesting than the usual disorganized mess of thoughts.
( You down with entropy? (Yeah, you know me!) )
