MD/GR

[Sojourner]

At 09:54 PM 9/12/97 EDT, 3DEM11 at QUCDN.QueensU.CA wrote:

>slithers on.  M & D  raises comparisons with Absalom, Absalom! --with the
>transmission of some ancient curse and with the "high and impossible destiny
>of the United States" (Faulkner). They share some of the same images: the
>tangle of lines vs. the dividing line (in AA's case, of the ledger--which,
>given Pynchon's attention to economics, does metaphorically occur in M&D).
>And both texts are haunted by the might-have-beens, by both future and past,
>and by the sense (at least in Mason's case) of "being doomed to live."
>In a way Rebekah haunts Mason like Charles Bon haunts Judith....and conjures
>the "invisible imprints" of an absent beloved's thighs (Faulkner again)...
>Which I'm sure "we" can all relate to...wretched because left with only an
>invisible trace.
>

Oh my sweet darlin' Caddy... glad to hear a Faulknerian pitch, as well as
A!A!, for I've been too long without the company of someone who hast
even read this, much less liked it. 

btw. at a recent street festival, I saw a Cliff's Notes for A!A! and it amused
me to no end their surgical autopsy of this "living" book.

Blood evrah ware!