MDMD, ch.1, (was Re: MDMD[6]: Fatherhood & The Absent Author)

[ERIK at smtp.goddard.com]

> You're right to point out a tension between bourgeois respectability and
> the life of recluse nomad in Pynchon; that's suggested in SLow Learner
> in his description of discovering the Wardell book (was it THe Wandering
> Scholars?).  The tension is also suggested in the dedication to Vineland:

Haven't read that in a while, but, if that's so, take that book name with the 
description of Stencils pursuit of V as being like the mythological (Golden Bough)
hunting of harts, and you get--

the wand'ring heart (hart?).

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