ATDDTA(10) A Screaming Comes Across The Creek [294-295]

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

     Mark Kohut:
     yes, I concur to Mike's ob that 'outrageousness" 
     peaked with GR....
     I have felt it is because that book's subject is the 
     greatest outrage of the 20th Century.
 
     There's Mike's title for his book on Pynchon.  
     Pynchon: Outrage and Beyond

Mine's "Geli Tripping: Pynchon's Counter-cultures". Like the 
counter-clock worlds of the Scurvhamites. Or the counter-
cultural qualities of the Gross Infant Suckling Conference.
Or the counter-cultural aspects of Geli Tripping.

     Mike Bailey:
     This lighter touch is why I like the later Pynchon better.

     I can't think of a place where he shows the imago of an
     unflattering Irish-American stereotype (it certainly would 
     be easy), so can't say what my personal reaction would 
     be.

Oh, I'm sure we'll run across something later, AtD may play 
it "light", but there's plenty of dark magic in the text, will
probably run across a barfing Shelia-Na-Gig before too 
long. Considering all of TRP's Joycean aspects, it's odd
that we don't run into that sort of thing more often.

There's quite a bit of America's "Great Melting Pot" going
on in AtD, the author usually notes this sort of difference
with some kind of joke.