So, how about that last chapitre of M&D?

[Richard Romeo]

>
>Pynchon was doing so well with the penultimate
>chapter, a portrait of male comradeship that fairly
>tore a tear from me, a piece of of his lightest and
>most touching writing, perhaps to date.
>
>And then the final chapter comes along, more of the
>Pynchon-patented weirdness, a scene that seems to
>sprawl past Mason's death but only in a semi-developed
>state, to say nothing about Mason's theory about the
>positions of the stars jumping out of nowhere...
>snip
>Daniel.
>
>=--------------------
Wouldn;t say patented-weirdness so much as an ambigious nod toward the 
legacy of M&D's work and of America in general.  Whereas, Mason will die 
broke and mad, there is promise for his children in the new country.  But 
that red-eyed dog may be their companion and not the LED, of course.
I can't think of any instance where Pynchon is being weird for its own 
sake--he usually has something up his sleeve.

Rich
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