TPR & The Marriage Plot - Eugenides

[Paul Mackin]

On 11/9/2011 4:45 PM, Bekah wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
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>> On 11/8/2011 10:46 AM, Bekah wrote:
>>> I think Eugenides may be a fan -  maybe even currently present amongst us:   However,  The Marriage Plot is set in the 1980s,  the characters are college seniors and going into their next year.  It's a social satire and I'm put in mind of Jonathan Franzen -   (I'm not necessarily recommending anything  -  just reporting a Pynchon sighting) :
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>> What did you make of lumping V. with all of those classic religious works?
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>> Mitchell was  emphatically on his search for God by this point in the book.
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> I was truly puzzled about that when I first read the passage but later I thought  perhaps it says something about Mitchell himself.   It might say that  he is not a complete religious nut,  he has some interest in reading good contemporary lit for pleasure.
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> Bekah
>
Mitchell did show good sense in realizing when it was time to give up 
the quest (both of them).

P