Fw: Chap 13, TMoP, cont.

[Mark Kohut]

--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Chap 13, TMoP, cont.
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 7:39 PM
> p. 171--The Finn says she is hungry. a universal meaning of
> poverty. "let them eat cake", etc.  [See Chekhov
> story about the hungry peasant with his nose at a restaurant
> window.]
> 
> Matronya, natural innocent, brings bread. "One must be
> as a child, to enter
> the kingdom of God." Very ideal Christlike image by
> Coetzee?...again, a Grand Inquisitor speech allusion?
> 
> And Anna scolds for drawing Matronya into affairs which
> should not concern her...of violating her innocence, so to
> speak?