AtD and 9/11

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

One of the problems with Mason & Dixon is the way anachronism is incorperated into the story. It really  messes with that "Sonorous" tone spoken of before, thrusting TRP's work further and further into the realm of pure farce. As Pynchon ages---and face it kiddies, he's quite aged now---his focus seems to be more and more on the absurdity of it all. Maybe that more serious tone we read in V, "49" and GR can never really come back, as it becomes harder to take just about anything seriously, considering demise is immanent and unavoidable. Of course, all the parallels with "Starbucks", "blinking L.E.D.'s" and various food obsessions particular to the late twentieth centuary constitute satire pointed directly to the time in which M & D was written. As we find in all of Pynchon's books. 
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From: "Tore Rye Andersen" <torerye at hotmail.com>

The very fact that he DOES admonish the reader to see no parallels between AtD and the present is a blatant indication that he is being ironical. 


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