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

[John Bailey]

"[B]lessedly post-ironic", I guess. Not that I particularly enjoyed
the novel on which he blurbled that phrase.

But I found AtD a novel that allowed for multiply-coded meanings that
couldn't be reduced to either 'irony' or 'sentimentality'.

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Tore Rye Andersen<torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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