does AtD rock?

[Mark Kohut]

Dear P-listers,
   
  I want to put AtD vs. GR (and other Pynchon works) into a different comparative framework---
  for fun and for real fun attempt at a placement insight.
   
  All lines singled up?
   
  In my unpublished response to Wood, I said asking for the whale in AtD was a mistake---that the war in GR makes Moby Dick the right comparison. I said, look to The Confidence Man of Melville's as a possible analogy.
   
  So, what other writers' works can we match up TRP's/...at least GR and AtD.
   
  Anna K., with an obseesed adulteress in tragic love is Tolstoy's GR. His sprawling
  War & Peace is his AtD.
   
  We have already found Proust's one lifelong book to match up with AtD...he had no
  whale.....(unless it is Love).
   
  Twain...Huck Finn = GR.......all the rest equals AtD?
   
  Help me out?
   
  MK

Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
  It ain't no Gravity's Rainbow, but what is? It's like complaining
that Jesus ain't no God (if you're into that sort of thing ...).
Having left it lying (usage?) fallow for some time (I think I had to
gt past the first anniversary of the end of my life in order to pick
it up again), I'm more than occasionally having to look up just who
some of these people are and what they're doing there, but I'm glad to
be back at it. I will say, though, that I think the last three novels
differ most from the first three in not being nearly so enigmatic, or
so compelling so, at any rate (the ultimate Pynchonian attraction,
methinks). This may not be entirely the author's fault ...

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