MDDM18: German

[Dave Monroe]

Oops.  This would have made more sense had I written,
"I've been esp. interested in how Pynchon, in M&D, has
one leg in the mid-to-late 18th century and the other
in the late-twentieth century" as I'd set out to
write.  The ol' clinamen there, sorry ...

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> But I've been esp. interested in how Pynchon, M&D
> shuttle betwixt the mid-to-late 18th century, the
> late-twentieth century, and any all all points in
> between (and, at times, before and possibly even
> after). Hm ... I feel a song coming on ...
> 
> Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
> Like a Colossus; and we petty men
> Walk under his huge legs, and peep about ...
> 
> Wiliam Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene ii,
> lines 144-8 ...

And I did just read yr message there, jbor, as
apparently always, we have different emphases here, is
all ...

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