MDDM Ch. 12 Summary & Notes

[Dave Monroe]

So you're saying that you DON'T think Pynchon is
deploying all the various historical elements in Mason
& Dixon to some effect or another, that it's not worth
doing the legwork to determine just what of "the"
historical record (though it strikes me that said
record is often invoked by Pynchon precisely when it
is not quite so unanimous ...) is being used here,
perhaps even how, and so forth?  It may not be
necessary, one can read anything in ignorance of all
sorts of relevant contextual information, of course,
but ...

But esp. in light of yr own self-described "trawling"
in re: the astronomy of M&D?  Again, wish I had the
time myself, all of interest, even use, to me, at any
rate.  And thanks as well to Otto in this regard,
among many, many others (regards, Others).  Don't know
how you find the time, and we all know just how much
time I can occasionally find here.  But, really ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> But you still haven't given any indication as to
> what, if anything, you are specifically referring
to,
> disagreeing with
> 
> > Me, I think Pynchon is Doing Something with all
> > these historical elements here.  Just what, I'm
> > not quite sure yet (if I, or anyone else, ever
> > will be), but you gotta do the research first
> > in order to determine just where and when he's
> > deploying just what and how ...

Still don't see how I could possibly be provoking any
of the following here: "trying to force things into
them which aren't there at all," "in the interests of
producing a biased reading, or rewriting, of the
text,"
"using the texts to champion some doctrinaire
political or religious viewpoint, meanwhile turning
the texts into little more than polemics, and
acknowledging and valuing them for the complex and
multifarious works of art which they are."  Again,
windmills, straw men ...

But, for the record, historical or otherwise,  I did
"rewrite," correct my typo there ("deploying") ...

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