ATDTDA 713

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

          Monte Davis:
          Pynchon's age and childhood reading place him 
          perfectly to see it as a continuum. To us, Vienna 
          as a world capital, Uskoks, fancy-dress hussars, 
          Tsars and Habsburgs may have a musty 
          comic-opera flavor... but from a Pynchonian height 
          (depth?), to coin a phrase, "the past isn't dead. 
          It isn't even past."

Cue Zither: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4JpDUMXBqo