GRGR(8): Nuclear light

[Bart Westcott]

A strong second to the recommendation of _Stallion's Gate_. 

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>From: 	David Casseres[SMTP:casseres at apple.com]
>Sent: 	Friday, January 17, 1997 11:01 AM
>To: 	Pynchon list
>Subject: 	Re: GRGR(8):  Nuclear light
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>Monte Davis sez
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>>And what a peculiarly un-final end. GR embodies and foreshadows so many 
>>ironies...
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>...[much good stuff deleted here]
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>>We knew there was *something* strange, but it wasn't until GR that someone 
>>made artistic if not historical sense of it.
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>Thanks for a very good post, and it reminds me to recommend another
>novel 
>about that moment in history, _Stallion Gate_ by the underrated Martin 
>Cruz Smith.  He has a certain genius for endings, and this novel about 
>the Trinity A-bomb test ends with the main character (a Navajo working
>as 
>a security officer at Los Alamos) running as fast as he can through the
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>pre-dawn dark, away from the tower with the Bomb on top of it, and the 
>last sentence gives us the sight of his elongated shadow suddenly 
>appearing on the ground in front of him.
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>Cheers,
>David
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