M&D - Tyburn Tree 'resurrections'

[Cjhurtt6 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/19/99 3:31:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
rjackson at mail.usyd.edu.au writes:

<< Quite right. He doesn't *believe*, or *expect* his readers to believe
 anything. He simply asks us to "entertain the possibility" of this or
 that in the fictional world he has created, (albeit a world not unlike
 our own in many respects).
  >>
suspension of disbelief...not new territory

Mark Wright (AIA) scoffs:

> Pynchon is crafting fiction, not "entertain(ing) the possibility of
> were-beavers" and the like.  
are you and rj talking about two different things? inside the fiction, 
werebeavers...maybe. outside...probably not.