MDMD2 Chap 6---Pollywogs Live Yet!

[Greg Montalbano]

Eric's lament:

>Chapter 6 offers us half a dozen or so amusing charecter sketches
>of a vairety of happy Idiots, and they are mostly well done. Indeed, part 
>of me wishes that Pynchon (who must have enjoyed Master and Commander
>& The Far Side Of The World) just let go and wrote a little mini-sea novel
>within his larger whole, allowing these figures to develop and interact. 
>However, Mason & Dixonis, as anyone who has read it at night in bed 
>with the book resting against one's semi-upright frame, a very big book 
>already. There are, lets face it, many interesting sketches that readers may
>wish had been turned into ongoing figures. Surely we can imagine the fun
>of having the L.E.D. around for most of the books pages? Or perhaps a
>certain French chefis another reader's favourite? How about Amy, milkmaid
>of Brooklyn? 

Combining this with previous posts, it appears we all feel pretty much the
same on this one point:  the book should have been longer.