pynchon-l-digest V2 #4350

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy all

(snip)
Similarly, the popular allure of 'The Da Vinci Code' is  also the false
claim made by the author that it is based on "historical  fact".
(snip)

I paid no attention whatsoever to the Da Vinci Code thing, and haven't
read it and frankly don't plan to. But to those of us who have read it
I ask:

Compare and contrast The Da Vinci Code with Gravity's Rainbow, in which
P conjoins historical fact with fiction that is often
all-but-indistinguishable from fact in a way that is perhaps meant to
leave us without a clear figure-ground understanding of either. (I
surmise that The Da Vinci Code mostly leaves out the "historical facts"
in favor of titillating nonsense, but again, how does this differ from
P's method? (Lordy, have I become a heretic? What nonsense have I let
slip through my teeth?))

And please please don't do it in MIME format, which the W.A.S.T.E.
system re-transmits as yards and yards and yards of irritating
gibberish.

Best!
Mark


		
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