Fw: "Thomas Pynchon"

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My sense is that the linchpins are Crying of Lot 49 [lotsa crossover 
with the legacy of Pynchon & Company, both Family & Fortune] 
and Gravity's Rainbow [adding a heaping helping of in your face
"Black Magic", Q/C/Kabbalism/Crowleyism and Rock 'n' Roll], then 
Mason & Dixon. The connection to Vineland is obvious, but the 
deeper connection to Gravity's Rainbow is ignored at one's peril. 
I think V's prescence shows most tellingly when La Jarretière 
reappears on page 1066, OBA telling us it was all a joke, he 
didn't really mean it.  Atonement takes time, you know.
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> On 1/25/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > No reviewer has written that AtD is kinda the third of a
> > trilogy with V and GR, but we have sorta been going there
> > in allusive, elusive ways.
> 
> I don't know if NO one has said as much, but it's a fair statement, at
> least insofar as AtD alludes/relates more directly to either V. or GR
> than Lot 49, VL and M&D.  They ALL serve among each others'
> intertexts, though (to say the least ) ...
> 
> > I think I want to believe that, sorta.
> 
> Clap yr hands ...