pynchon-l-digest V2 #1448

[Paul Mackin]

Was it not written, in the stars, in our dreams, in the good book, that
one among human kind would be born free from the original sin of logical
necessity. Let us all stand in awe.

			P.

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Doug Millison wrote:

> 
> Malign:
> >The central image in The Sound and the Fury is a girl's soiled pair of
> >underpants.  By Millison's starved logic that puts the United Womens Garment
> >Workers at the heart of that novel.
> 
> 
> Does Faulkner depict any United Womens Garment Workers in _The Sound 
> and the Fury_?  If so, that would be analogous to Pynchon's depiction 
> of Dora slave laborers -- the ones who manufactured the rockets at 
> Mittelwerk, the ones that Pokler encounters there on pp 432-433 -- in 
> GR. If Faulkner doesn't depict the garment workers, your comparison 
> is nonsense.
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