Can we find idealism in Pynchon's oevre?

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

In Vineland, it's the family get-together, and don't tell me it's forced—family get togethers are always forced! But it's still a family get-together, dammit, and of the Traverses at that [at least in part].
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From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> In GR it's that albatross feather Slothrop holds on to, like Dumbo's
> magic feather.
> 
> On 10/5/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Yes, we can, Yes, Yes...and we have been.
> >
> > Shambala.
> >
> > A world like (parts of) the Past......trees, stones, wind, an Earth almost
> > alive, an inner earth [ M & D ] full of wonders......some tenderness, some
> > love, some grace.....
> >
> > Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > O yes, Samuel Beckett.......OPTIMIST!
> >
> > Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > But Magnus Eriksson, literary critic for Svenska Dagbladet, strongly
> > disagrees: "The academy is totally apolitical. Their decisions are
> > well-founded and they consider literary merit only. If politics influenced
> > them, V.S. Naipul would never have won." He explains some of the
> > non-laureates: "Joseph Conrad was never Nobelized because the academy was
> > scrupulously following the instructions in Nobel's will, that the
> > recipient's work should have an idealistic direction." Conrad, like Thomas
> > Hardy, was too dark, too pessimistic.
> >
> > http://www.thelocal.se/8677/
> >
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