MDMD(4) - Giant rob'd Beings (108.9-12)

[Doug Millison]

At 4:23 PM 7/20/97, Alan Westrope wrote, regarding a link between M& D's
108.9-12 "...behold a Company of Giant rob'd Beings" and Basher St.
Blaise's angel on p. 151 of GR:

>Just one of many Korrespondences between the novels, of course.

I'll keep on working through the list archives, sure this has been
discussed before, but I continue to enjoy the way Pynchon includes ghostly
and other-wordly beings so matter-of-factly in his novels -- all of the
spirits, angels, ghosts, right alongside the other characters, which also
run the gamut of human, animal (L.E.D.), and manufactured objects (Clocks),
regardless of the narrative or character point of view. Sure I'm not the
first to observe similarities with Latin American magical realism (Gabriel
Garcia Marquez comes immediately to mind, and the wonderful essay Pynchon
wrote for  "Love in the Time of Cholera") in the way Pynchon moves his
fiction through this continuum of characters (not to mention space and
time, too).


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