dialectic-despair

[David Morris]

I didn't find the MD voice tedious.  Like mst beeks written in a
dialect, it only takes a short while before the cadence becomes
natural to the mind.  Sometimes when reading such fiction I will find
myself internally speaking in this new cadence.

I think AtD will also have a period voice, probably akin to that in
the Education of Henry Adams.

David Morris

On 11/13/06, Lary Wallace <pytheas76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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?