AtD and 9/11

[Steven]

	Let's not forget LSD intake...he may've sprained his brain writing  
GR -- I think I read a quote by him to that effect.  But the weird  
anachronisms I enjoy -- Donald Duck in Mason and Dixon, eg.

	Steve

	
On Aug 15, 2006, at 8:56 AM, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> 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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