VLVL (13) p 274 - "...Hooking a U" [Hidden SS's]
Richard Ryan
richardryannyc at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 22 15:53:37 CDT 2009
"Grendel's had an accident. So may you all." (I quote from memory - but this I remember thinking when I read it a zillion years ago was one of the great last lines in post-war American literature - NEW THREAD).
--- On Sat, 3/21/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: VLVL (13) p 274 - "...Hooking a U" [Hidden SS's]
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 11:23 PM
> wow, that's not how I saw it.
> but I guess it could be read that way.
> I wouldn't like it either if that was what it's about.
>
> For me, it was like, the outsider (though he is actually
> related to
> them somehow)
> striving for acceptance
> and his mother bringing him up to think he's special and so
> forth,
> whereas when he goes to Hrothgar he's met with horror, is
> kind of like
> the disjunct between a happy kid home life and the
> indignities of
> school...
>
> there was also some symbolic stuff that I dont remember and
> then
> "Grendel's had an accident" - I dinna ken how that disses
> earth
> religion, but if it does, well I'm agin it (the book that
> is) I didn't
> close the book thinking Geats were cool, that's for sure.
> Triumphalism?!
>
>
>
>
> --
> - "Be groovy or B movie" - the old 24fps signoff
>
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