MDDM Ch. 29 "a Voice thro' the Vapors"

[Doug Millison]

Reminds me of Pynchon's "deliberate" (he's choosing the words, after all)
characterization of Blicero as a monster -- malevolent, you might say -- in
GR.  Both of these characterizations take on cartoon proportions, too --
Blicero en travesti, Franklin in the Grim Reaper costume.

Franklin's act smacks of contempoary performance art -- complete with
groupies -- in some underground urban venue, too.


At 5:35 PM -0800 1/23/02, Dave Monroe wrote:
>   "Eager Applause, as into the Lanthorn-Light comes a
>hooded, Scythe-bearing Figure in Skeleton's
>Disguise,--tho' the Instant it begins to speak, all
>sinister Impression is compromis'd.  'Ah...?
>ex-cellent...." (M&D, Ch. 29, p. 294)
>
>http://www.noiseland.co.uk/excellent.wav
>
>--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
>>
>> So, these apparently objectified interventions are
>> enough to convince me that the negative
>> characterisation of Franklin *here* - and *to this
>> point* in the novel - is deliberate ...
>