Deflating Hyperspace

[Dave Monroe]

--- Robert Mahnke <robert_mahnke at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I've been very conscious in reading M&D and now
> AtD of the extent to which Pynchon tries to capture
> the sense of what was current in the respective
> periods in which those two books were set.  What I
> don't recall is whether this was something he did
> in his other books, particularly Gravity's
> Rainbow....

Perhaps because of the time elapsed (lingustically,
scientifically, socioculturally, geopolitically, et
al.), Pynchon's deployment of (chronotopicaly) local
color is perhaps simply more obvious in M&D and AtD. 
But as Wesinberger showed and as, say, This Here List
continues to establish, even such incidental elements
as the BBC programs playing in the background in GR
tend to be well researched.  GR's WWII settings just
aren't as removed from our own, though I'm sure there
are elements tehreof we've all had to look up ...


 
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