eGad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[Ya Sam]

>
>... but now imagine it's 1987 and you've been handed a
>brief excerpt from the forthcoming M&D ...
>
Hmm. The style of M&D, which I have to admit is sustained throughout the 
novel, is a different thing altogether. Pynchon achieved a skilful 
recreation of the 18th century English literary text. To tell the truth I 
recently got hooked to literature of that period  and caught myself at the 
thought that what I was reading was ripped off straight from M&D and The 
Sotweed-Factor. However, if we're talking about an intentionally bad pulpish 
style, like that of the excerpt, Pynchon has a tendency to segue from that 
kind of writing into baroque verbose fugues, and back again. It's his 
staple.
I'm convinced it's impossible to make a notion about the whole thing on the 
basis of such a short sample, and even with M&D, well, it is not that 
homogenious. As to the why this particular excerpt has been chosen, if it's 
not novel-within-a-novel, I can make another, altogether heretical 
conjecture: It is the beginning of the novel (please don't rush to stone me 
yet!)

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