The paper of record speaks

[Paul Mackin]

When I said the review was positive I didn't mean to imply that the   
novel or the reviewer's interpretation of it will necessarily leave  
everyone happy.

Scroll down for the final sentences of the review . . .




On Nov 22, 2006, at 4:08 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:

>
> From this Sunday's NY Times a review by Liesl Schillinger:  (very  
> positive)
>
> IN “Against the Day,” his sixth, his funniest and arguably his most  
> accessible novel, Thomas Pynchon doles out plenty of vertigo, just  
> as he has for more than 40 years. But this time his fevered  
> reveries and brilliant streams of words, his fantastical plots and  
> encrypted references, are bound together by a clear message that  
> others can unscramble without mental meltdown. Its import emerges  
> only gradually, camouflaged by the sprawling absurdist jumble of  
> themes that can only be described as Pynchonesque, over the only  
> time frame Pynchon recognizes as real: the hours (that stretch into  
> days) it takes to relay one of his sweeping narratives, hours that  
> do “not so much elapse as grow less relevant.”
>
>
>
>









. . . . The only prescription for salvation he offers is the same one  
a sheriff’s wife gives to the dynamiter’s troubled daughter midway  
through the novel: flight from reality. “Let go,” the sheriff’s wife  
explains. “Let it bear you up and carry you, and everything’s so  
clear because you’re not fighting back anymore, the clouds of anger  
are out of your face, you see further and clearer than you ever  
thought you could.”


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