The Sadness of America

[Cyrus]

Bekah wrote:

> I think that some Americans recognize a sadness in America, Pynchon, 
> as case in point.  But do we perceive the same kind of sadness as 
> non-Americans?
>
> I think that our sadness is more for an unfulfilled promise,  a dream, 
> an ideal that ain't gonna happen or maybe that never was. Or perhaps 
> our sadness is about declining power, corrupt as it is and was,   a  
> misguided nostalgia of sorts.   Then too there is the sadness of what 
> we have done to this beautiful land,  our environment.  This is the 
> awareness of the destruction of greed. All of the above could be put 
> under the general heading of "what a waste."  (so to speak)
>
> What kind of sadness do you perceive in Pynchon?  Some or all of the 
> above?  Something different?


M&D p. 345. Sorry, no time to type it right now. Hope ... despair ... 
all that could have been...

Cyrus