NP but Nixon

[Paul Mackin]

On 1/21/2013 10:28 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
> The Cinematic Imagination in Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"
> Antonio Marquez
>
> Pynchon's Endings
> Richard Pearce
>
> Two of interest to this idea that Nixon and Nixon-Land are not after
> thoughts, or simply tagged on to a European War Novel or whatever.
>


Good additions to the discussion.

The tagged on (or tacked on) feeling I got from the ending shouldn't be 
interpreted as an unadulterated criticism.

I was thinking mainly about how the book must have developed in the 
author's mind and at his desk.

History, after all,  is one damn (tagged on) thing after another. (not 
saying the past isn't prologue or anything like that)

P