meshugginah posts

[Mike Hobson]

>At 9:56 AM 7/3/97, Greg Montalbano wrote:
>>>I was there too, and had no problem with the language in the book.  All
>>>fictional dialog uses invented language, and Pynchon's invention of 60's
>>>California head-speak worked fine for me.
>>>

Presumably this (& with reference also to the rest of this thread) - the 
invented language & its working for a specific era - is to a large  
extent true of M&D as a whole. The puns, neologisms, winking twentieth 
century references, writerly knowingness &c, are not what we'd expect to 
find in an eighteenth century novel nor in an effective pastiche of one - 
but does this get in our way?