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See, I always liked brocolli. My father (who was, in the '60's, a civil rights activist), died last month, and for some unexplainable reason, the floodgates for "Olde Lit." opened for me again; very much like when My Grandfather died, back in 1974 and I soaked up "Magic Mountain", Buddenbrooks", Goethe's "Faust" parts 1 & 2 and mess of other books. I'm really not sure where it was coming from, but now I'm reading that one great long autumnal sigh, Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", so full of longing for an unreclaimable past, for a world that no longer exists. Your post makes me think that, right now, I'm look in the right direction, that Proust might be an essential key to "ATD". Anyway, anticipating a newly formed and brilliant vision (even if it will probably be a Kaddish for dreams of western expansion) seems a whole lot more likely to bear fruit than bitching about an excerpt from "Johnny Guitar, pt II---Revenge of the Osteopaths".
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From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
   "that is a very interesting passage . . .  
Post GR, Vineland and M&D are both novels that thematically look back in sadness (and some anger) on younger days. Pynchon thankfully, pbly to the regret of the revolutionaries, gives us a bit of sweet with our broccoli, homer simpsons who won't change the world, or build cities, but are endearingly human in an inhuman environment. 
 rich

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