MAD Magician

[s~Z]

"M A. D" wrote:

I just happen to think that Pynchon is the most successful) is more
concerned with the transformation in the reader caused by the reading
(be it through knowledge) than he is with the learning of the reader.

And to me, that's magic.
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I agree. Like when I humorously or not change your naming of the list
from Maltan Milkballs to Maltan Mothballs and the next day Doug M.
points out a mothballs reference in the text. Content-wise a trivial
example, but dynamically it points to the magic Pynchon knows how to
conjure and his understanding of the underlying invisibility, the Tao of
it all. Physics, philosophy, history, individual personalities,
politics...all part of the 'ten thousand things.' Beneath...magic,
rhetorically speaking, ties it all together. It's a complex knot from
surface appearances, but a slip knot if you tug it just so.