After reading the works of last unit (Postmodern Fiction 1), I was not anticipating the works of this unit, which threw me off. It was clear to me that after reading the first work of this unit, “Entropy” by Thomas Pynchon, that this unit would open my eyes to much different work than what we’ve covered so far in this course. Yes, it is similar in format to the previous unit (Postmodern Fiction 1), yet each piece proved itself to be much different than what we’ve covered so far in this course. Honestly, I haven’t even read anything like the works in this unit. However, I did find them fascinating and interesting in their own way.
While the pieces from this unit give me a lot to digest, so much that I haven’t even begun to analyze them after a first read, I am very intrigued and am anticipating moving forward into understanding these pieces and what is behind them. I find myself asking why did the writer write this? Of course, it’s fiction, yet I’m still left wondering why the writer would want to write a piece like this, just for fun or does this piece hold a deeper meaning? All of these pieces are wildly unique and are certainly memorable. I am interested in discussing them later on this week and getting the most out of these works as possible, and possibly even answering my question of why the writer would write something like this, and discovering any hidden themes and meanings within the works themselves.
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