GRGR(11): More on Webley

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I am reminded of Marquez' "magical realism" & Melville's "digressions."
The song & dance routines common in Pynchon's fiction compliment the 
narrator's schlemiel voice.  GRGR's a tale difficult to tell & cinematic 
devices, even cartoon language help to move the story along.  Sometimes, lost 
in the reading, my mind poses a comic-book image.  When reading a novel, 
there are mind pictures.  These pictures in GRGR owe more to R. Crumb, S. 
Clay Wilson, Will Elder & Harvey Kurtzmann than to the Pre-Raphaelites or 
Winslow Homer, more to Alfred Ryder or Alma-Tadema, on occasion, than to 
Monet or N. C. Wyeth.
Just a thought.

jbf

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Now it's just:  Leave a good-looking corpse.
                                    -- Horst Meursault,  "Ruminations"