Stone Junction?

[Tore Rye Andersen]

"Relatively mellow" here means "mellow in comparison to GR (and AtD)." Of 
course there is anger in M&D as well, but compared to the other two novels, 
it also has a somewhat nostalgic, cozy-in-front-of-the-fire feel to it. M&D 
is a bedside story, some of it told to children, and even though the story 
told by Wicks Cherrycoke certainly contains some fierce indictments of our 
sad world, perhaps not fit for the ears of children after all, it isn't as 
ferocious as GR. The slavedriver at the end of M&D is pushed over by an 
angry and heroic Dixon: Major Marvy is castrated, and some of the crooks in 
AtD are gunned down (and one of them has his eyes gouged out before being 
tortured to death). I'm not saying, of course, that Pynchon condones these 
actions, but I'd contend that the violent demise of the crooks in GR and AtD 
is indicative of the level of anger.

Best,

Tore

>From: "Jordan Fink"

>Really? You found Mason & Dixion "relatively mellow"? I found it very very
>angery at murder, capitalism, the EIC, crimes against humanity, etc.

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