AtD and 9/11

[rich]

I wouldn't say obscured--there are many parts of M&D that are intended to be
humorous but I think there's enough gloom and melancholy to quote a Rush
song, Beneath Behind and Between. that could be the result of the time and
style of the 18C that Pynchon decided upon.

rich


On 8/15/06, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I found that the substantial concepts behind Mason & Dixon were obscured,
> most of the time, by overwhelming layers of comedy, as if TRP is choosing to
> subsume these "Serious Ideas" in cloaks of parody. Of course, that's
> "Postmodernism", ain't it?---re-contexualizing "History's" stories? Again,
> if there is a "statement" in Pynchon's two appearances on the Simpsons it
> is: "These are my children."
>
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> That's a devilish commentary, tempting and discouraging simultaneously. I
> want to beleive that complicated puns etc. will be geared to something
> substantial in terms of ideas.
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