MDDM Ch. 60 Mountains of Wales

[jbor]

I'm still not certain that there's an actual region in western Pennsylvania
or W.V. which is or was referred to as "the Mountains of Wales". I suspect
that in that first paragraph we are immersed in Capt. Shelby's nostalgic
memory or dream of his homeland. The second paragraph in the chapter begins
with a comment on the way that Shelby and the other Welshmen in the colony
have tried to recreate this "era", i.e. a typical Welsh landscape, in their
patch of the American "West".

NB. also the way that Pynchon's narrator continues to ridicule Shelby here:
"Though not in all ways insane ... " (585.13)

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on 6/7/02 11:38 PM, Larry Carswell at carswell at attbi.com wrote:

> "In the strong twlight over the Mountains of Wales, draining of light League
> upon League of darkly forested Peaks...to the eye familiar, the occasional
> interruption pf a Cabin or Plantation...chimney Smoke, a gray patch of
> girdl'd Trees amid the green pervading...