Back to V., MB's structure post cont.

[John Bailey]

Excellent point. So is the lost possibility offered by
Vineland/America something worth rescuing or are those who attempt to
do so objects of (perhaps melancholy) ridicule? Think the latter is
what Alice was suggesting a while back - am leaning more towards that
position myself right now.

Then again, the other option is part of why I see Pynchon as a
quintessentially American writer - M&D's America, Doc's America,
COL49's America is not Shangri-La or Vheissu or the Hollow Earth.
There is some speck of hopefulness, though not optimism, which is
rather different.

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:
>> Vineland doesn't really offer a Great Lost Place
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> Maybe Vineland *is* the Great Lost Place...
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