AtD 1066, 1076: A surprising survival (spoilers)

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 29, 2006, at 5:45 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

> On page 1066 of AtD I ran across an old acquaintance whom I  
> believed to be long dead, but whom Pynchon has resurrected for us  
> old fans, including a wonderful bit of sly self-critique. That Tom  
> LeClair also failed to notice this reappearance in his review  
> (where he said that he only recognized Bodine from previous novels)  
> strengthens my impression that he hasn't read at least some of  
> Pynchon's novels in a very long time, and that he therefore fails  
> to see how Pynchon indeed singles up all lines in AtD.
>
> I've already commented on his failing to recognize the Traverses,  
> and this failure becomes even more strange when you consider that  
> some of the characters in AtD practically end up in Vineland, in a  
> small city among redwoods, "up in the last corner of the U.S. map,"  
> where Jesse Traverse hands in a school essay to his teacher Mr.  
> Becker (his future father-in-law?). Clearly, Tom LeClair doesn't  
> know his Pynchon inside-out, as someone stated.



Guess he should have read my p-list post of October 31.


http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0610&msg=109595&sort=date





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