Intellect vs Emotion

[Paul Murphy]

Doug Millison writes:

>Pynchon avoids sentimentality, but achieves significant emotional effects
>all the same. Mason's longing after his dead wife feels real (Pynchon's
>especially good at longing, yearning), for example, and in countless small
>moments he evokes deep emotional insight into his characters.

SPOILER:









Don't know if I should still do this spoiler thing, but I will. The
graveyard scene with Mason and his son was completely shattering for me,
precisely because of the restraint, the boy saying to Mason (on p.768),
"it's your mate."

Cheers,
Paul

P.S. Doug: please edit your .sig file. It really is excessively long.