ATD SPOILER p. 5 (fwd)

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Lost the tail on my first try...
Hope I can keep it wiggling this time around.

H

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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:17:33 +0200
From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at cc.oulu.fi>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: ATD SPOILER p. 5


I could find the time to start AtD only on Saturday. Reached
the end of Section One last night. I'll reserve judgment until
I'm much deeper into the book. (Suffice it to say that my first
impressions of the book are more positive than those of Vineland
were almost 17 years ago. Whereas...)

However, I cannot help remarking here that there's this quite
funny, inverted reference to
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Kafka on the page 5 - the story "Investigations of a Dog".

As many of you know, the anxious dog protagonist of Kafka's
story wants to find an answer to the question: Where does
food come from? From land, or from air? As the dog population
of the story cannot perceive human beings, finding an answer
is far from easy.

In AtD, it is the "lavatorial assaults" by Pugnax the dog
that create similar epistemological dilemmas for the human
populations below...


Heikki