Pynchon Paper & [fake] Pic

[Michel Ryckx]

Another article one of the IPW2008 speakers pointed my attention to:

"The idea of progress is embodied in the third shadow army moving 
through the pages of Thomas
Pynchon’s novel – namely the fleet of Zeppelins or steered and propelled 
balloons, which
circle the planet on missions and assignments. These missions are 
gradually shifting and
allow the expanding crews for more and more of a discretion in 
conducting their private
search projects and experiencing adventures in the Balkans or in Mexico 
or above the
crater created by the explosion of a meteorite in the Siberian taiga in 
1912. The skyships
also evolve, increasingly armed with the newest inventions in 
navigation, in propelling
and arms, so that at the end of the novel they actually resemble space 
shuttles on
mysterious missions, symbolically embodying the hope for the swiftness 
and lightness of
progress."

OK, a rather simple paper and whatever you think of it: strange picture 
on page 18 (my guess: fake)

Presented by Sławomir Magala during a conference on May, 11, 2007 at the 
University of Essex, UK:

<http://www.essex.ac.uk/afm/emc/novelconference/magala_paper.pdf>

http://www.essex.ac.uk/afm/emc/novelconference/magala_paper.pdf

Michel




	

	
		
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