MDMD2: The Learned English Dog

[John Bailey]

I think, too, The L.E.D. is the first example of the kind of 
super/preter/extranatural thing which M&D seems to suggest is denied and 
subsequently destroyed by the Age of Reason, Enlightenment, Men of Science 
etc, yeah? Would people agree that this is a major theme of the novel? Like, 
one of the 'lines' which the novel suggests should (maybe) not have been 
drawn is the one between myth/magic/fantasy/belief and 
fact/proof/nature/thought? I'm pretty sure it becomes more explicit later 
on, though I could be recalling wrongly. I have so much trouble sorting out 
what is in these books and what I think about when reading them. I'm sure 
I'm not alone.

>From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: MDMD2: The Learned English Dog
>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:36:05 -0500
>
<snip lots of excellent stuff>

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