M&D Spoiler - Pgs 45 & 69

Greg Montalbano Greg.Montalbano at ucop.edu
Thu May 8 13:08:09 CDT 1997


Out of several immediate impressions of M&D, the one that I will commit to
the screen is this:





















One difference between this novel & his others (GR in particular) seems to
be certain "Pynchonian" language being  *spoken* by characters in the book,
were it was formerly assigned only to the Narrator.  
Two examples:

  "As if... there were no single Destiny," puzzles Mason, "but rather a
choice among a great many possible ones, their number steadily diminishing
each time a Choice be made, till at last 'reduc'd,' to the events that do
happen to us, as we pass among 'em, thro' Time unredeemable, --- much as a
Lens, indeed, may receive all the Light from some vast celestial Field of
View, and reduce it to a single Point."
                      pg 45

  "Mason, of Mathematickal Necessity there do remain, beyond the Reach of
the V.O.C., routes of Escape, pockets of Safety, --- Markets that never
answer to the Company, gatherings that remain forever unknown..."
                      pg 69




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