BEER Group Read AMBOPEDIA

Fri Oct 18 06:57:54 CDT 2013

Like at least one reviewer, I read this scene also as a nod towards the 
late David Foster Wallace. In "Infinite Jest" group therapy culture is a 
big theme (AA), and the cruise ship setting could refer to the title 
piece of "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (originally 
published under the title "Shipping Out"), one of my favorite essays 
from the 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I%27ll_Never_Do_Again
http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf

On 17.10.2013 19:50, Mark Kohut wrote:
> That 'stretch' to P's borders' notions carries more weight when one
> notices the Mason & Dixon line referenced......
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> Borderline Personality Disorder, a cruise ship full.....
> 1) half-crazy, metaphor?
> 2) another good social observation about this disease which has grown and grown in
> diagnosis in Pynchon's lifetime?
> 3) a self-comment metaphor on Pynchon crossing any kind of borders?.....
>           3A) some of his fiction seems to diss man-made, therefore artificial, national borders and
> find the usually ancient natural boundaries of mountains and rivers, etc. to be the ideal. AtD, M & D?
> yes, this seems like a stretch to me too......
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> I like the crazy resonances for acting outiside the norms.........
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> you?
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