atddta 32:summary part 4 of 4

[Michael Bailey]

> grladams wrote:
>
> >  It's worth noting the status of this section of the book, and the book in
> >  general, and by my own interpretation, history itself at the time as
> >  Pynchon savors it, as being a sum of delays, setbacks, tangents, flipflops,
> >  as if a historical hurtling forward motion switched rails, a pause button
> >  got pushed, whilst intermission music or such played, what do you think?
> >
>

and I'm like
> history as antithetical to personal life, romance, etc?
(& bla bla bla)

-- but, yeah!  Scenes like this, a vision like that,
are why P isn't dystopian (imho)...

...a-and you said you were going to talk about the Burgher King soon...