BE Spoiler (if that's possible now)

[David Morris]

Of course that straight tone ends with the grave-spinning vision.

On Thursday, November 14, 2013, David Morris wrote:

> 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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