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[David Casseres]

Andrew sez (regarding the Cudgel & Throck scene)

>Oh, I do imagine the scene as a film (or maybe better still a
>cartoon), this one was just too close to the edit. Pynchon is very
>visual. And for those of us who are word-bound that's why the stoned
>read is such a good bet. But this is a Tristram Shandy technique
>without an adjacent Tristram to tell us what is going on. Delightful.

Yes.  And it's odd to realize, shortly after I remarked on how much less 
visual M&D is, compared to other Pynchon, that in many passages it isn't 
so at all.


Cheers,
David