MDDM Washington

[Paul Mackin]

Think Iwould like Tony Tanner, from what you say. All's I remember of
him is that quip  about in GR that  we never know whether we are . . . .

Will look the guy up.

The GW passages in M&D are probably not P at his best. Not to say I
don't find them funny. But pure comedy is pretty hollow.  The passages
about the slave girl, what was her name?, are more poignant.



P.





public domain wrote:

> --- Paul Mackin
> >
> > My question of last evening remains: What's the
> > point of all of this. There
> > must be a hidden meaiing somewhere.
> >
> > P.
>
> Did anyone else find this all very funny the first
> time round? Gee, I hate to spoil all the fun, but P's
> cartoons are (From Tony Tanner's book, page 234
>
> very amusing and enjoyable, if we submit, for the
> moment, to a cartoon version of history. At the same
> time very serious and momentous events are in fact
> being looked at and engaged with, but through a ludic
> and distincly unofficial medium -- "indeed", if I
> might quote Pynchon on Mason and Dixon's labours and
> apply it
> to his own work,
>
> "a spirit of whimsy pervades the entire history of
> these...Boundaries, as if in playful refusal to admit
> that America, in any way may be serious."
>
> Niether Doug nor Jbore can make the argument because
> they are more interested in making the other guy look
> like an idiot. Or making me into the problem with the
> LIST.
>
> Do see Tanner's best essay, on the Melville's C-M.
>
> Oh, it's simply the best essay on M&D around.
>
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