endings

[Erik T. Burns]

i like the ending of _The Crying of Lot 49_ ... spooky, pentecostal,
un/revealing etc.

And the unity at the end of _GR_, all of us in this together: perfect.



On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm with sometime sparring partner David on this.....that 'didacticism' you
> found just felt like the most
> original narrator chorussing I had ever read....and he brought in the movie
> theater!!! and I sorta almost
> felt, couldn't believe, the rocket above my head........
>
> Many a day since, I think that rocket is getting closer.....
>
> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> To: Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com>; P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 4:11 PM
> Subject: Re: endings
>
> To each his own.  But for many, including me, it was Pynchon's
> masterpiece, never to be equaled since.
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Gravity's Rainbow isn't bad, but just a little didactic for me, elevating
>> message over story in a way that's a little too heavy-handed.
>
>