Bloom on Pynchon

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I approached Iron Heel with caution, assuming it would be somewhat simplistic.  But it's well worth reading, particularly the description of the riots at the end.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Aug 23, 2006 1:15 PM
>To: MalignD at aol.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Bloom on Pynchon
>
>Goes well with Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here. 
>Maybe John Steinbeck's The Moon is Down.  Or Jack
>London's The Iron Heel, for that matter ...
>
>http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1164
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel
>
>http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/IronHeel/ ...
>
>--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
>
>> << ... but see also West's Cool Million: The
>> Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin >>
>> 
>> Indeed.  My favorite of West's novels.  Shagpoke
>> Whipple for God's sake ...
>> 
>> When I first read it, I was forcing the damn thing
>> on total strangers.
>> 
>
>
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