antw. re: Put this Phission in your Preterit Pipe and Poke it

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

tess marek schrieb:

> P was a slow learner because he was slow to come to
> terms with Death in his fictions and everything
> suffers because of this slowness. 

  one lesson pynchon never learned is that things can be too long in the making. 
  this is, i'm sorry, the case with m&d. some of the better parts, think of the 
  st. helena episode, seem to come from the times of gravity's rainbow. other 
  stuff - especially where tom tries to become funny - is obviously from later  
  years. does the book build a gestalt? no, it was too long in the pipeline. in 
  the end its author had lost the original feeling from the beginning. i     
  probably would like "mason & dixon" better if i had only read it twice. hope  
  the new book will be "aus einem guss", as we put it over here ---

 kai (only licensed grand-mal-epileptic on board)