some loose ends

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 18 17:30:53 CDT 2001



Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> The instability of time runs throughout P's work -- that Radiant Hour in GR,
> the missing 11 days in M&D, etc.. For what it's worth, it's a trait that
> Pynchon's work shares with the novels of Kawabata (an author P mentions by
> name in his introduction to Stone Junction, which permits the assumption
> that P is familiar with K's work), especially Thousand Cranes, where time is
> out of joint, cultural touchstones of the seasons are wrong, people are late
> or early, etc.

Hamlet opens out of joint.  To the Lighthouse? Confidence
Man? 
Doubles and mapping on to? Fractured and morphing
characters? What P does is not some radical shift. It is
waht has been, but he turns the volume up. 

It wasn't very large
there was just enough room to cram the drums in the corner
by the dodge
it was a 54 with a mashed in door and...TURN IT DOWN Meat
ball!



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