positive 1Q84 review

[Mark Kohut]

The Town of cats' other major symbol is the tower......Some Golden Bough, some spin
on belief and worship and even Lord of the Flies without the horror....but some same spin,
via cats....................????

From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
To: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> 
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: positive 1Q84 review

I'll go along with most of what the reviewer has to say, particularly
the jarring nature of unreality and the power of logic and language
when separated from reality. (Keep the government's hands off of my
medicare!)

When the novel was announced, I wanted to know "When will the talking
cat appear?".

Of course, they show up in a story within a story, almost as a
self-parody, with a character lost in an unreality.




On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I stopped reading 1Q84 after little more than a hundred pages intending to
> return when I was more in the mood.
>
> This NYRB piece might lend some encouragement.
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/dec/08/behind-murakamis-mirror/
>
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