DFW (+ spoilers)

[RICHARD ROMEO]

I would agree with Eric--now that M&D is here.  M&D wear their hearts 
were everyone can see them.  DFW must still prove that IJ wasn't a flash 
in the pan--I think the guy's brilliant,  Hope he can keep it up.  
Wallace tackles other issues and there's just as much Gaddis in IJ than 
Pynchon... 








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BTW, for the Brits--Mason's speech is not alterated in any way like 
Dixon's is.  Is this the product of Mason living amongst the societal 
elite at the academy, that BBC english, et al?

Another sidebar:  Is Mason, the embodiment of the melancholic, citified, 
industrial north  South in England), Dixon (North England), the sanguine, 
countrified South?  When they first part in America, Mason goes N, Dixon 
S. but that was just a coin toss.  they do reverse later on, thereby 
taking on the attributes of the other, M witty, D depressive?
I guess, this book really is about England, too.

Richard Romeo
Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
The Foundation Center-NYC
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