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[Mark Kohut]

and I come in the room and say, Yeah, yeah, it's why he has that hope and idealism that 
  the Nobel Committee wants (under the savage satire) but still probably won't earn him that
  prize---maybe 'cause he would not 'accept' it?

Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
  > 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...


       
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