BE Spoiler (if that's possible now)

[Mark Kohut]

I have just reread what Morris is referring to. ..... Death is presented here as unmediated....sez so in 2nd para...
"for much of the city the experience has come to them mediated"...
 
.but the smell was real to anyone there. (I remember it still. ) He gives us the smell of death as REAL...(I now knew
a crematorium's smell a little)....
 
When he scores the use of the phrase "Ground Zero" so nakedly...."without shame or concern for etymology" he loses this fanboy...and then, 'the purpose is to get people cranked up in a certain way. Cranked up, scared and helpless" 
I am with him, maybe, on 'cranked up".......but no, no, he is wrong about "scared and helpless"....we might have been on 
9/11.....but New Yorkers were not by the next days...."For a couple of days the West Side Highway falls silent"....maybe up at 72nd, yes everything was shut down......maybe my memory is bad....but from below 14th, that Highway was as busy as Broadway carting debris almost immediately.....
 
 



On Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:18 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 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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