MDMD(Part1) Who is Thomas Pynchon?

[Peter Mead]

Dear Andrew,

	Jeez, you're good.  Thanks for the insight and jarring me into a
fruitful approach to the work.  A couple of notes below an excerpt of
your post:

Andrew Dinn wrote:


> Another key to the Learned Dog's character is provided by the Welsh Main,
> the cock fight where the Dog asks himself `How is he supposed to ignore
> this pure Edge of blood-love? Oh yawn yes of course, seen it all before,
> birds slashing one another to death, sixteen go in, one comes out alive,
> indeed mm-hmm, and a jolly time betwixt, whilst the Substance we are not
> supposed to acknowledge drips and flies ev'rywhere.... ' An inability not
> to comment on cruelty and suffering could easily be attributed to both the
> Revd and Pynchon and perhaps argued to have been occasioned by one of those
> `moments Hindoos and Chinamen are ever said to be having, entire loss of
> Self'. And the encoding of such observation into fantastick stories as a
> way of avoiding the terms of their condition might be another common trait.


	Just saw the movie A Boy And His Dog for the first time, though I am
old enough to have seen in upon first release.  Dog's name is Blood (the
substance we are not supposed to acknowledge).  Interesting possible
background influence for LED. Perhaps this was covered.

	When the Dog ponders ways of ignoring this pure Edge of blood-love, I
saw it as the attempt to stay above his given (canine) nature.  A dog
would normally answer the call of the wild with so much blood flying
around.  Just so with Cherrycoke's hanging.  It pushed him beyond his
nature, so he could act or witness or recount praeternaturally.

	Peter Mead