AtDTdA: (9) 248 Wednesday's kick-ass question

mikebailey mikebailey at speakeasy.net
Sat May 19 05:47:49 CDT 2007


On Thu, 17 May 2007, Ray Easton wrote:

>
> On Thursday, May 17, 2007, at 06:56 US/Central, Jasper wrote:
>
> > And how much of our understanding of AtD is built upon our
> > expectations of what a Pynchon novel is or should be?
>
> Almost all of it.  And for good reason -- AtD is a parody of a "Pynchon
> novel".  This point has been made repeatedly by negative reviewers, but
> the point is valid whether or not one thinks that this is something
> negative.
>

That's Sure not something that's x'd my mind, but what a notion.

I'll give you a virtual dollar if you elaborate.



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