my scrub jays & underground men

[malignd at aol.com]

That's right; I had forgotten about that.  Eudora was a big fan of MacDonald's.


The Underground Man, MacDonald's----Dostoevsky allusion, we know----was reviewed 
famously by Eudora Welty, as the lead, front page review of the New York Times Book 
Review in TRP's (relative) youth




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From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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The Underground Man, MacDonald's----Dostoevsky allusion, we know----was reviewed 
famously
by Eudora Welty, as the lead, front page review of the New York Times Book 
Review in
TRP's (relative) youth.
 
The late Ross Macdonald, too, demonstrated the form's capacity for social 
criticism and psychological insight. ''In our day it is for such a novel as 
(Macdonald's) 'The Underground Man' that the detective form exists,'' wrote 
Eudora Welty. ''I think it also matters that it is the detective form, with all 
its difficult demands and its corresponding charms, that makes such a novel 
possible.'' 

Betcha we're gonna have to read/reread MacDonald--yea, right--- just to START 
annotating "Inherent Vice" fully.
 
To repeat, since Heikki has found this wonderful, sure connection: MacDonald's 
'solutions'
to the crimes almost always involve what we might call "Freudian" or 
psychological 'family dynamic'
perversions.......
 
What a wonderful contrast, hapless, slacker Zoyd contre jour Lew Archer.......
 





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From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:35:15 AM
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Cool. . .
Gotta get me a copy of that "Underground Man."

On Dec 11, 2008, at 6:27 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:

>  things seem to be
> getting intertextual.


      



 



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