BE Spoiler (if that's possible now)

[Robin Landseadel]

There's a lot of passages in the novel where the narrator's voice  
becomes very direct and rather pointed as regards his objects of  
attention and his opinions as regards such.

On Nov 14, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> 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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