IVIV amethyst is resilient. There is too much kindness in the room all of a sudden.

[Tore Rye Andersen]

rich:
 
> ditto. that whole scenario is so schmaltzy as is Doc's parents
> mindbarf
> makes one pine for the anubis and pointsman's spermy bed

But not, I guess, for Pökler giving his wedding ring to that woman 
in Dora ;) 
 
It seems to me that Pynchon's always had that sentimental 
streak in him. In GR we hear that: "There's nothing so loathsome as 
a sentimental surrealist" (696), but I'm guessing that the Sentimental
Surrealist (a.k.a. the Kenosha Kid) is none other than Pynchon
himself, and that he cherishes this loathsome flaw. With the possible
exception of V., his novels are certainly filled with sentimental (some
would say 'schmaltzy') moments: Oedipa hugging the old sailor, Pökler
and that random woman in Dora, Doctor Isaac (another Doc) grabbing his
brother's shoulder, Mason and Dixon in front of the fireplace, all those
farewell scenes in AtD, and so forth.
 
Like those new literary rebels David Foster Wallace called for in his
essay "E Unibus Pluram," Pynchon seems to me more than:
 
"willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged
ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the "Oh how _banal_." To risk 
accusations of sentimentality, melodrama."
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