COL49 - Chap 2: San Narciso as a circuit board

[Natália Maranca]

In AtD there are elaborate descriptions of technology AND of characters and
their psychological conflicts... That's one of the reasons the book's so
thick - Pynchon focuses on both themes, and emphasizes the last one a lot
more than he did in GR ou V.

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Laura:
>
> > In part, the "mature" Pynchon is more fascinated with people
> (specifically family) than technology.
>
> I think you're mostly right about this, particularly w/r/t VL and M&D, but
> in AtD - with its many elaborate
> descriptions of technology - Pynchon does seem to return to his earlier
> fascination with machines.
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Natália Maranca
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