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[alice wellintown]

I say give the Amazon folk credit, they nailed it. They couldn't call
it a Romance, or those academinc terms, postmodern, high modern, or as
Cowart does, roman fleuve, or hysterical...metafiction... so I like
it.

The American Mystery (Tanner).

In this wonderful little book, Tanner, from the first essay on
Emerson, which takes up this issue of Sloth and the Author, of Anarchy
and Work, we see how Pynchon fits into this American Mystery
tradition, again, not so Dieckensian as has been argued, nothing that
European, but a studied son of the American Mystery.

The mystery softens the blunt instrument that is anything that would
work on 9-11 with a bleeding political edge.