MMV "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna"

[pynchonoid]

Thanks for posting those notes, Dave. 

I wonder, is it merely sophomoric for college kid
Pynchon to freight his story with such a title, or,
looking ahead to the work yet to come, is it
justifiably ambitious?  I'm recalling that letter that
was quoted, when Pynchon's letters to his agent wound
up at the Morgan Library, from the early '60s, when P
referred to several projects he was working on and
predicted literary fame and glory if he pulled it off;
in retrospect, I'd say his intuition served him well.
(My question goes out to those of you who approach the
early works with an open mind, not those who have
already announced they aren't worth reading. But since
it's a free for all here, anybody can reply,
naturally, even those of you who don't want them
discussed.)

FYI, "Manchurian Candidate" embodies enough paranoia
to satisfy just about any Pynchon fan, I'm guessing. 



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