Misc. TRP and V. Woolf and one M & D similarity

[Mark Kohut]

Daniel Mendelsohn, Pynchon scholar and Woolf
appreciator wrote a piece about rereading the
two favorite great short 'novels', MRS. DALLOWAY and
THE CRYING OF LOT 49. Comparing/contrasting a little
the two protagonists.

The indefatigable Monroe sent it around again recently.

In his fine fondness, he sez that he has no way of knowing
whether Pynchon has read MRS. DALLOWAY.

He has read it and he loves it, I suggest.

I am rereading, as if for the first time, MRS, DALLOWAY
in another group situation.
When I reread it again very shortly, I will list foreechoes
in it from P's works, which jump out like shouts if you have
been too immersed in all of Pynchon in recent years.

But just one now related to M & D.: Clarissa D. sez
early that, like the LED, she oftentimes feels she just wants
to get through another day alive.

A--and, in this early modernist work of what I will call 'Becky's camera',
that camera is not unlike M & D's (except that we are oftentimes seeing
the memories of others, usually in vial scenes, as well as the move to
a third-person
omniscient narrator with invisible dissolves [Just like in that faked
(but nice) single take
that is BIRDMAN.]....)
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