Re: La Jarretière

[David Morris]

My take on the reappeance of  La Jarretière is that P. uses characters
as types, and these types are reusable.  Pig Bodine is another example
of his doing this.

David Morris


2011/4/1 Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>:
> This sounds on target to me Mark. I don't find any textual evidence in "V." that La Jarretière's (ludicrous) death is staged.  Thus, her re-appearance in AtD must be Pynchon multiplexing in his usual warped, giggly way..  History heaps jokes on top of jokes.
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> RR
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> 2011/3/31 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
>> Rereading the AtD appearance after having just reread V.
the death in V. still seems real and the reappeance is some insightful
spin on turning horror into a joke.....farce.....in history