BE Spoiler (if that's possible now)

[David Morris]

Robin,

Please point those other places out.  Chapter 30's start hit me as a stark
and unique event in BE.  Especially so because of its subject.

On Thursday, November 14, 2013, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> 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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