Most people don’t want to read Joyce or Pynchon et al because they...
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Jul 11, 2025
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Most people don’t want to read Joyce or Pynchon et al because they had classical educations & play with multiple networked allusions to obscure biblical, kabalistic, hermetic, pagan, historical, musicological, philosophical, etc concepts figures events & persons in a single page.
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The Proteus section of Ulysses for example is a history of western epistemologies with extremely specific allusions that if missed render the whole scene pointless because it’s literally just about “becoming able to write/read such a sequence & understand it”
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When Pynchon connects Wagner to the Third Reich to the Rockefellers to Auschwitz to Disney World in one scene— that’s a topographical map of historical developments which become meaningful when taken apart & put back together by the reader— otherwise “lol Rocketman stole weed”
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Basically— the average reader wants to read something “on their level”— which means never developing at all— because they just want “post-historical animal submersion in intuition & feelings”— the human is no longer striving for Universal History— but turned inward, on “identity”
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Id-entity— an animal is an “id-entity”
