AtD--How Does it Fit/Great Global Novels

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The Japanese Insurance Adjustor is our always affable and remarkably adaptable Takeshi Fumimopto, that charming man who first appears just prior to contributing a lively performance on ukulele of "Wacky Coconuts" aboard an airliner during a remarkable and daring mid-air invasion by black ops. 
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From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
> One Big Novel - it's easier to deal with that way. P's
> concerns have been BOTH global AND American from the
> beginning it seems to me.
> 
> I don't understand leaving Vineland out of the triads
> or quartets, either, and yes I do understand some
> readers don't like it stylistically or because of the
> political and pop culture content - but the Japanese
> material there puts the novel on a global or
> globalized scale, the concerns are thoroughly
> "postmodern" as well as American. I believe Vineland
> is at least part the Japan-related whatever it was
> that P was working on when he wrote that letter to
> Donadio.  Close reading of the novel here showed
> Vineland to be of a piece with the rest of his novels,
> not in a ghetto apart.
> 
> I suspect we'll see more material related to Japan in
> the new novel, turn of the 19th-to 20th century is
> pivotal to Japan in terms of setting up the War that
> dominates GR, the American response and America's own
> journey to the west, as it comes into its own as an
> imperialist power.
> 
> 
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