BE Spoiler (if that's possible now)

[Mark Kohut]

Remember when it was being said after 9/11 that "irony was dead"....well, for most of BE Pynchon is showing
how it is never dead, isn't he?........here???



On Thursday, November 14, 2013 6:44 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
  
I admit to not yet having finished BE, but I'm getting closer by bits every day.  So when today I got to Chapter 30...

SPOILER ALERT!


... I was kind of shocked by the sharp change of tone.  The first three paragraphs read like Pynchon directly himself without character mediation observing the post 9-11 history dynamic as a New Yorker, and the larger realm.  Honest and straightforward without sarcasm or judgement, except for the reference to the Newspaper of Record.  These three paragraph are unique in Pynchon's fiction, as far as I can see. 

David Morris
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