Happy Bloomsday!

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 16 Jun 1995, Brian Stonehill Media Studies Pomona College wrote:

> Some Bloomsday Pynchonalia:
> 
> Joyce's early story "After the Race," in _Dubliners_, has the densest
> concentration of mechanized humans and humanized machines outside of _V_. 
> Right?
 
Jimmy's evening, along with the lives leading up to it, has a feeling of 
the "engineered". His father was "satisfied at having secured for his son 
qualities often unpurchaseable." Melanie's creators no doubt had  
analogous feeling about their little windup fetishe. Pynchon's book 
_talks about_ inanimateness--maybe excessively--as well as portraying it.

					Pablo