TMoP: Chap 11...on that "cracked bell"

[Mark Kohut]

Yes, and I had not thought of JC either......but the 'moral judgment' esp.
about 'radicals', fits....

but this use of 'cracked bell' might be just a coincidence, a fact in Conrad's fistional world......Sometimes a 'cracked bell' is just another cigar?


--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Ryan <richardryannyc at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: TMoP: Chap 11...on that "cracked bell"
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>, markekohut at yahoo.com
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 9:48 AM
> Hmmmm...hadn't thought about the echoes of Conrad in
> TMoP - Dostoevsky, (obviously), Turgenev and Kafka come so
> much more readily to mind - but they're obviously there.
>  The novel's tone - a bleak, somewhat acerbic social
> realism combined with an intense psychological
> introspectiveness - is eminently "Conradian"....
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 11/1/08, Mark Kohut
> <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Google Books
> Resultby
> > Joseph Conrad - NOT 1993 - Fiction - 256 pages
> > Twice at die clatter of the cracked bell he arose
> without a
> > word, disappeared into the shop, ... for reasons that
> had
> > nothing to do with abstract morality. ...
> > books.google.com/books?isbn=1853260657...