Pynchon/Vollman

[giarc iksoknihcram]

thought the same


>From: "John Pendergast" <jpender at siue.edu>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Pynchon/Vollman
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:55:56 -0600
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>Does it seem like Pynchon is cribbing a bit from Vollman's Bright and Risen 
>Angels? All the stuff about electricity and corporate greed/nefariousness 
>(on a massive scale), and the ice palaces of the arctic, the recruitment of 
>young men early in their lives to serve the corporation. The implied war 
>between nature and electricity. All of this probably has a common source in 
>"real" history, but at times the similarities are striking.

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