re From Typology to Type

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
--- Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com> wrote:
> Pynchon's typographical
> play
> in M&D could be seen as a conscious response to Sterne's,-- the dash,
> yes,
> and also the Capitalization of Certain Words.  The question has come
> up
> often, here in Pynchon-L, if the capitalized words follow any
> meaningful
> pattern. Paranoid readers might suspect some sort of coded-message
> scheme

I find that the "Caps" work as speed bumps, slowing the eye to better
approximate the pace of speech. This helps me attend to the richness
and musicality of the language. M&D sounds wonderful, doesn't it?

Rolling the words about my mouth as I read
(which bugs the s**t out of K)
Mark

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