Tolerance and Allegory missing word

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Failure to recognize that Pynchon's  [NOVELS]  are menippean
mostly,
> and need to be viewed in light of the ironic treatment of
> the  encyclopedia of texts he mingles into his stories with
> frightening skill, is akin to failing to understand Eliot's
> ironic voices and his foundations in western philosophy. 


S/B Pynchon's novels are menippean satire, as has been
discussed here. 

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