Pynchon, Coetzee, "the Holocaust as metaphor" and more

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Dave Monroe wrote:

>Again, these games can be played in either direction
here ...



> Or one could point out that not only is Pynchon
> eminenetly allusive throught his published oeuvre (and
> perhaps then some ...), but also that Orwell's
> situation as presented in that 1984 "Introduction" is
> not only not dissimilar to that gaining in the U.S. et
> al. post-9/11/03, but also to those repeatedly alluded
> to (Rex 84 et al.) in Vineland (e.g., see Thoreen) ...

Right. 

Benny learns nothing and Stencil learns too much. The reader?  Well, the
reader, those that are not Brian McHale's misreading Post-Modernism
masochists, but are experienced readers of "experimental" and  almost"
post Modern prose fiction (Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov, Faulkner ... McHale's
examples) who can descry and discern a wax wing from a red herring,
won't dare kill every mockingbird,  silencing the hermeneutic evensong
so that nothing but a screaming comes across the sky. Only Hugh
Godolphin and Ahab discover Nothing beneath the black spots on the page.
We survive like Ishmael, floating at the margins, to spin our yarn.