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

[Mark Kohut]

'vial' should be "visual"

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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