Re. Vineland, page 3

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Dec 2 11:15:52 CST 2008


TRP is the misdirection King, thus the oftimes weird word order.

On Dec 2, 2008, at 8:24 AM, David Morris wrote:

> I don't think it's odd other than in the sense that poetry often
> juxtaposes words in odd ways for sound, imagery, etc.  I think Pynchon
> puposely turns phrases that make one stumble, stop and re-read.
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Carvill John  
> <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted  
>> awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window,  
>> with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof."
>>




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