The Work of Thomas Pynchon with Gregory Marks
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The Protagoist
Pinchon's essay on ludde. Is it ok obot ladit? ends with this kind of question: whether technology can be a re-purposed monster for a lodit. He looks at the gothic novels of the time, as are mary shelley's frankanstin in which he interprets them as essentially lodlite. Novels are statements about not only the dangers of technology, but precisely how we can deny the machine by means of subterfuge and darkness. And yeso althoh, that being said, you know, as much as he t said, yes, you now, blodism is absolutely viable in the twentieth century
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