an opinion on TRP and HJ

[rich]

as are many passages in AtD and M&D--I think we can agree that this is
Pynchon's strength, his weakness for character is overshadowed by the
richness of his prose and scope of vision, something that I think is
not in books like Vineland and I suspect IV

More is not less in Pynchon, more is better--my preference so I do
hope for one more big book though I doubt it

p.s. on PBS here in the US, on IV launch day, the Frost-Nixon
interview is being shown.  Nice coincidence

pps  Coover's new book Noir will be published in April (like The
Kindly Ones, originally published in French)
Rich

On 7/23/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>
>> (twas the prose style, we thought was, his o-o-own?)
>
> Word, dude.
>
> 	You come in—just hit town, here in the heart of downtown
> 	Peenemunde, hey, whatcha do for fun around here? hauling
> 	your provincial valise with a few shirts, a copy of the Handbuch,
> 	perhaps Cranz's Lehrbuch der Ballistik. You have memorized
> 	Ackeret, Busemann, von Karman and Moore, some Volta
> 	Congress papers. But the terror will not go away. This is faster
> 	than sound, than the words she spoke across the room so full of
> 	sunlight, the jazz band on the radio when you could not sleep,
> 	the hoarse Heils among the pale generators and from the
> 	executive-crammed galleries overhead . . . the Gomerians
> 	whistling from the high ravines (terrific falls, steepness,
> 	whistling straight down the precipice to a toy village lying
> 	centuries, miles below ... ) as you sat out on the counter of the
> 	KdF ship alone, apart from the maypole dancing on the white
> 	deck, the tanned bodies full of beer and song, paunches in
> 	sunsuits, and you listened to Ur-Spanish, whistled not voiced,
> 	from the mountains around Chipuda ... Gomera was the last
> 	piece of land Columbus touched before America. Did he hear
> 	them too, that last night? Did they have a message for him? A
> 	warning? Could he understand the prescient goatherds in the
> 	dark, up in the Canarian holly and the faya, gone dead green in
> 	the last sunset of Europe?
> 	GR, P 460
>
>