AtD--How Does it Fit/Great Global Novels

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Just realized he first appears in GR. Is he the one with hexagrams on his toes?
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From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net
> 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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