ATD: ad: Pynchon excerpt from new novel

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 8, 2006, at 7:18 PM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

>
> " . . . Pynchon's  comedic gift  is not in "hilarious" set pieces  
> like, say, the banana breakfast, but his ability at turn-of-phase  
> in essentially ordinary situations. In this he is sublime. . . "
>
> Rather similar to Don DeLillo in "White Noise", where most of the  
> book's comedy came out of the extremely mannered quality of  
> language used by the novel's professorial protagonist and narrator.  
> Or Richard Russo's dialog in "Straight Man" or Nobody's Fool",  
> where shooting the breeze is elevated to a fine art.
>
> On the other hand, the man did come up with some rather good set- 
> pieces---here's my nod for the Marquis de Sod.
>
Nobody beats the Marquis de Sod . . . /