M & D and ATD, thematic homage, parallels, etc.

[Keith]

This is quite an assumption about Pynchon which is impossible to  
verify. There is no way to know whether Pynchon Edenizes or is  
presnting Edenization from a neutral position or from a satiric/ 
ironic position. When I look at his body of work I don't find much to  
support the Edenization hypothesis.

In my reading, when I read the words ending M&D and AtD, I didn't for  
a minute think they were anything but sad and ironic.

Pynchon doesn't reveal his hand. It's what I like about him.

I read those endings the same way I viewed Woody Allen's ending to  
Manhattan.

On Apr 25, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Monte Davis wrote:


Despite Guns, Germs and Steel, 1491, and other efforts, the  
persistent weakness of the New World "contact" narrative is to Eden- 
ize what we found.

Pynchon is not exempt from this weakness.