Pg 165 - and Kakutaniesque (SPOILER)

[bekah]

At 9:28 PM -0500 11/21/06, Joe Allonby wrote:
>This ninny obviously doesn't get it. She criticises Pynchon for 
>having dozens of characters with odd names and very short 
>appearances in a long novel. Uuuhhhh....
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I haven't been following the discussion as I've been reading as fast 
as my little eyeballs will tolerate but as I'm  currently half way 
through the book (which I'm enjoying thoroughly and definitely want 
to read again)   I've permitted myself to catch up on the posts and 
now here I am commenting!

  (*NOTE*      **** Spoiler [if you're not to this page]   ****)

**On pg 165**    we find the following paragraph which I think neatly 
sums up a good chunk of the book and relates to the concerns of 
Kakutani and others:



****
You know,  he continued, "Out here you run into some queer 
characters.  You see them go in, they don't come out again till 
months later, sometimes never.  Missionaries, deserters, citizens of 
the trail, for that always turned out to be what they'd sworn their 
allegiance to - trail, track, river, whatever could carry them to the 
next ridgeline, the next bend in the river emerging from that strange 
humid light.        ****


  Keep reading there,  pg 165,  through the next pages to ????  and 
note the references or allusions to some kind of  "frontier."   I'm 
thinking this is one of a several thematic continuations  from Mason 
& Dixon. 

As to this book being a throwback to the 60s/70s themes of GR and V 
and CoL49  - um - not even hardly.   This is a book for the 21st 
century because it appears that some low people in high places 
continue to have certain attitudes about land and other possible 
forms of property.

Bekah
hoping I haven't offended anyone