AtD and 9/11

[jd]

I don't think that Pynchon would have written that line ignorant of
the fact that it would make people all the more conscious that the
book probably does have some kind of comment on modern life... again,
that opening bit for Huckleberry Finn comes to mind.  Regardless of
the words, he brought attention to it, and I would wager he had a
reason for doing so.

On 8/14/06, Keith McMullen <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> Pynchon is throwing in his two cents to keep many readers from doing
> to the new novel what they did to his 1984 foreword.
>
> > "No reference to the present day is intended or should be
> > inferred"
>
> Most excellent.
>
> He's an artist creating fiction. What a concept.
>
> On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:58 PM, David Gentle wrote:
>
> > I read "No reference to the present day is intended or should be
> > inferred" as a very harsh sarcastic jab to draw attention to the
> > parallels between the period described and our present day...
> Why? I read the whole thing as sounding slightly pissed off, knowing
> that people would read whatever they want into his book and him not
> being able to do anything other than right a half hearted blurb to
> try to clarify things.
> Don't you think that if he wanted to make a statement about modern
> America he could?
>
> DG
>
>