MDMD: America

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Rich schrieb:

> > [quoting doug millison] I'm not so >sure about children being able to 
> > "redeem" America, either -- 
> >Mason's boys, >at the end of the novel, are obviously seduced by the wildly 
> >Romantic >vision of America that Pynchon has thoroughly undercut and 
> >exposed as a >sham in the previous 700+ pages.

> Some of the characters may feel that way, but it may be hard to pin down 
  Pynchons view beyond what we know.  Note that Mason ends up saying in 
  America and that tho Dixon dies in England, he wishes to return. There are 
  too many poetic and poignant laments to discount about America in Vineland 
  and M&D. < 

  yes, and then there's what gr calls "the fork in the road america never took", 
  which builds, in my understanding, the secret historical center of pynchon's  
  whole work. that road would of course have to be a twisted one ... "the fish  
  jump into your arms. the indians know magick" .... kai, while the twister 
  outside is shaking the trees .....