Mortality & Mercy available?

[Ghetta Life]

OK, I'll start the discussion by calling MMV a ham-fisted morality tale.  
It's got some valuable aspects for Pynchon scholars:  It does show us the 
first manifestation of Pynchon's Whole Sick Crew, a constant in his 
subsequent better works, and his take on them here should inform us about 
his attitude toward them in general.  And that alone is worthy of an 
extended discussion.  It's got dopplegangers, also a Pynchon staple, and 
some overt references to other literature which he gets much better at later 
in his life.  But it really suffers from the egregious use of a very 
questionably rendered Dark Native imported into the realm of the Whole Sick 
Crew.  In short, MMV is a poor bit of writing but a good first peek into 
some of what still concerned Pynchon in his later works.

Ghetta

>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>
>Oh, come now.  We've managed to bicker about teh occasional single 
>sentence, clause, phrase and/or word and then some for weeks on end.  
>Again, it'd be something for us to do whilst we haggle over a larger 
>project.  I'd do The Recognitions, but would rather do something Pynchonian 
>or very close to ...
>
>--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > discussing it shouldn't take more than a week or so.

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