It's time to embrace American culture again/: "Mother Night" & TRP

[James Kyllo]

There's also an awful lot of labour history in Vonnegut which AtD
brought to mind.  (John dos Passos' USA too)

best

James


On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> ... Who's that Updike guy? Nevermind, yesterday morning I turned on the TV
> and did hear the news. Then I checked my E-mails and read that "it's time to
> embrace
> American culture again". And so I put the Erykah Badu record ("New Amerykah
> pt. one:
> 4th World War") into the boom-box and danced on my oriental carpets till I
> was all sweat
> and sperm ... Then I fell into my armchair and picked up the next American
> novel I could
> find. It's Vonnegut's "Mother Night" [1961] and, having read 16 chapters so
> far, I guess
> this was an actual influence on Pynchon. Spying, black humor, the relations
> between
> Nazi-Germany and the US, plus the title which is not too far away from
> the one of
> Pynchon's latest (AtD).


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