MDDM Decadence

[David Morris]

Bravo!  Another great summation, Terrance.  This line of thought is both 
convincing and opens many doors for further examination.  Glad to see you 
back.

David Morris

>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>In their Decadency these Virginians practice an elaborate Folly of
>Courtly Love, unmodified since the Dark Ages…
>
>   -- RWC's  SDB, M&D.275
>
>  Decadence?
>
>A process, condition, or period of deterioration or decline, as in morals 
>or art; decay.
>
>Of course the word is also defined in the novel V. as,  "a falling away 
>from the human."
>
>In terms of GW and Gersh, an interesting comparison might be 
>Winsome/Sphere.
>
>In the SDB entry, the RC sounds quite a lot like the conservative narrator 
>of V. (that is Stencil & Co.).
>
>In fact, RC is the narrator of M&D just as Stencil is the narrator of V.
>The parallels are too many to outline just now, but it's obvious that M&D 
>is a novel close on the heels of V.
>
>We can  read RC's conservative moralizing as the author's position, but 
>this kind of reading can not be squared with the liberal politics often 
>attributed to the author.
>
>We can, however, attribute these politics to Pynchon's sources, i.e., Henry 
>Adams and Denis de Rougemont.
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