Webb Traverse

[Daniel Harper]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:17, you wrote:
> > > Would you care to elaborate?  So far I haven't read anything in AtD
> > > that illuminates MD, but I'd like to hear how it has for you.
> > >
> > > David Morris
> >
> > Nothing too specific here, as I'm still finishing the book. But several
> > references to the word "Day" in M&D have the same kind of relevance that
> > they do in ATD, in that in some sense the characters or the themes of the
> > book are working "against" the day.
>
> For me so far Pynchon's use of  the phrase "[fill in blank] the day"
> is so ubiquitous that it begins to feel very strained and looses
> relevance.  I started to write the different uses of "*blank* the day"
> but stopped early on.
>
> But at least one of the meanings that seem relevant and atypical is
> the sense of opposition to the day (light).
>
> David Morris

It's of course easy to take that sort of thing too far. But it is one point of 
similarity between the two books. My own fear is that we're eventually going 
to start seeing relevance where there is none....

-- 
No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
--Daniel Harper
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