dialectic-despair

[Lary Wallace]

Did anyone else find _Mason & Dixon_ tedious-going in places due to its insistence on 18th-century spelling and dialect? (I identify with Nabokov perfectly when he complains of all novels written entirely in dialect, be it Faulkner or whoever, including Nabokov's former student Pynchon). I mean, it really tried my patience. Is there any indications of whether _Against the Day_ will be written in what I'm going to call Straight Pynchon, or will it be written in dialect? 

 
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