Against the Day, re-examined

[Paul Mackin]

On May 5, 2007, at 2:15 AM, mikebailey wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 5 May 2007, Ya Sam quoted a reviewer with an odd and  
> dubious view:
>> I can forgive Pynchon for being sloppy and not reaching his high  
>> ambitions,
>> but I can't forgive him for being so arrogant about the era.  
>> Pynchon would
>> have us believe that the pre-war era was defined by Tesla's  
>> experiments and
>> the studies that disproved the existence of aether. In reality,  
>> that era was
>> influenced far more by Sigmond Freud's theories about the psyche and
>> Einstein's theory of relativity. "Against The Day" exists in an  
>> America
>> without Teddy Roosevelt urging us to fight neurasthenia with the  
>> vigorous
>> cure.
>
> heh, "in reality" indeed - funny criterion to evaluate a novel...


yes, it is.

this is a perfect example of a major problem with blogging

no editor to tell you when you say something dumb

I do agree with him on the Dally character however.