Rain Taxi Review

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 19 12:45:11 CST 2006


--- Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> ... perhaps Pynchon is the only author for whom it 
> doesn't seem odd to feature Franz Ferdinand as a
> character, set a segment of the novel in the
> Balkans, including Sarajevo, yet not feature the 
> assassination.

Point is, you KNOW what's going to happen, so ... cf.
Mason & Dixon vis a vis The Civil War ... but with
AtD, you (apparently, I don't think I'll ever be able
to stay awake long enough to finish the novel, I don't
think I'll be Allowed to) get the aftermath ...

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