VL-IV pgs. 98/99: Postmodern Mysticism

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

> Good stuff here, Robin. A 60's -1984 fairy tale feels like a very  
> valid way to look at this book. A fairy tale for the children of the  
> counter-culture.

Thanks, Joseph. Note that Salman Rushdie [who loves and understands  
Vineland] was writing Haroun and the Sea of Stories around the same  
time that Pynchon was finishing up Vineland:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0140157379/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

	". . .Rushdie dedicated this book to his son, Zafar Rushdie,
	from whom he was separated for some time. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroun_and_the_Sea_of_Stories

Even more than Vineland, Haroun is a classic children's fairy tale,  
pitched with an exacting sense of the sound of great children's  
fables. I think it is fully the equal of Alice in Wonderland.