Poor Sad Mexico

[Mark Kohut]

The detective trope is one of the leading ones (since created
in the last Century ) for framing our modern world, yes?

Death(s) everywhere....why? who? WTF?


Swine flu related to our farming/stockyard conditions----
so one of Pynchon's favorite animals is brutally raised
to get brutally sick with a new virus that connects us to
them and kills us both/all. 



----- Original Message ----
From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
To: kelber at mindspring.com
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:45:58 PM
Subject: Re: Poor Sad Mexico

The longest section is the "About the Murders" chapter.  The state of
the corpses of the murder victims found are described, but the act of
murder is not described.  And these corpse descriptions are
interspersed with other stories, like the experiences of some of the
detectives investigating the murders, and other related stories.  I
didn't find it gruesome.  The effect is to make the reader adapt the
role of a detective.  In some ways this book is one massive and
complicated detective novel.

David Morris

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:46 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> How does 2666 compare with The Savage Detectives?  I could only make it halfway through that book - it got tedious after a while.  I get the sense that the murder descriptions are the high point of 2666, but I'm not sure I could handle reading them.