V. and Pynchon, Misc.

[Mark Kohut]

In Shakespeare's Language, Kermode sez that, since Juvenal,
the great satires/satirists have always scored the urban (against the rural).

A reminder of this near-GR riff  fore-echo from As You Like It (the only pure 
pastoral
of Shakespeare's sez Frank):

'And this our life, exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing."