Dumb Question: Pynchon and Meta-Musil

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

> Hey foax:
> If P wrote high modernism stuff:
> 
> Do ye think that if Pynchon was writing in the 20s, he woulda written 
> something like _Man W/o Qualities_?

Its been years, but I don't recall any comic relief in MW/o Q's. That 
fin de siecle malaise just doesn't become our boy.

>  I'm kinda chugging along and popped 
> into into my head (of course, reading Vineland, I alos been been picturing 
> Michael J, Fox pontificating on Austrian decadence. don't know wtherther to 
> laugh or shudder ;) )

Now michael J as the victim in Young Torless suits my tastes a little 
better....

> meta-musily yrs

get with oatmeal.


love,
cfa