MDDM23: A Curious Accent

[jbor]

My point was that the description of the "linguo-beccal Fricatives" and
"spray" (375.19) fit Daffy rather than Donald. And that prior evidence - eg.
the direct references to old Walt glorifying the war (_GR_ 135.2) and to
racism in his depictions of Japanese pilots (680.27) - plus happier
allusions elsewhere to Porky Pig, the Road Runner and so forth, betrays a
distinct anti-Disney mindset in Pynchon's work, so that a fun reference to
Donald Duck would be quite unlikely, and noteworthy, perhaps indicating a
shift or mellowing in his critical perspective on The Frozen One.

I did certainly take on board your connection between the made-up Galuppi
opera and Daisy e Donald in my post, so wasn't positing an either/or or
criticising you, merely trying to engage with the text and see what others
thought about it. Sorry to have intruded.

best



on 26/2/02 11:42 PM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> Again, not either/or, but both/and ...
> 
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> 
>> So, Daffy rather than Donald? Even before taking
>> into account Pynchon's scathing attacks on
>> Disneycorp product, and explicit preference for the
>> alternatives, elsewhere in his texts.
> 
> Either either/or or both/and?  Both either/or and
> both/and?  Whatever.  Again, rhiozmes, or, at any
> rate, first impressions, approximations.  Reading,
> intrpreting, out loud, as I read ...
> 
> Though obviously I'm partial to that Daisy-centric
> interpretation myself, having gone to the trouble to
> type it up an' all.  I don't recall getting much
> support when pointing out all sorts of possible Disney
> references, "scathing" or otherwise, along the way
> here, but ...