MDMD 9 some notes

[John Bailey]

>From: "Otto" <o.sell at telda.net>
>To: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>, <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: MDMD 9 some notes
>Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:21:31 +0200
>
>Terrance:
> >
> > In GR Pensiero cuts hair, he takes hours, often days to cut each
> > one a different length.
> >
> > "God is who knows their number." GR.643
> >
> > This is how slick P can be with his biblical allusions.
> >
> >...But the very hairs of your head are numbered...."
> > Matthew 10:1-42
> >
>
>Tell me, is this "slick" to be understood positive or negative?
>
>Otto
>
>
Depends on how you like your hair cut, I think. In my opinion, Pynchon's 
allusions are so wonderful because you don't have to get them, and often 
miss so many on your first (and second, and third...) read. I certainly 
wouldn't have gotten the one mentioned above on my own. And heck, I still 
don't really get it.

But, there is just enough of a surface to GR to get by without getting no 
slick stuff. M&D even more so. So, I call it a positive. Not that such 
binaries make much sense here...


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