Webb Traverse

[Daniel Harper]

On Friday 20 April 2007 21:41, you wrote:
> I  kind of agree with Daniel in that it seemed to me that in Mason &
> Dixon  Pynchon was having his characters attempt live within and
> further construct a 2- dimensional grid on earth,  life,  philosophy
> and so on.  It was the essence of the times,  I suppose,  but they
> ran into trouble west of the Mississippi (and that's where AtD picks
> up).
>
> In Against the Day he is giving his characters a chance to live life
> outside the 2-D grid,  off the M&D  grid,  if you will.   Against the
> Day is about being blown away (in a variety of ways) into other
> dimensions as opposed to trying to map, delineate, define,  and
> circumscribe what we call the here and now.
>
> Bekah

This is an angle that I didn't consider, at first. Perhaps one can see ATD as 
the failure of completion of the promises of M&D....

Must re-read ATD soon. Perhaps even participate in the group read.

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--Daniel Harper
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