M & D Read

[Becky Lindroos]

In addition to parody,  I see where Pynchon makes use of the occasional anachronism - ideas of today which are voiced in the setting of history (although they may not have been completely absent from the era).  It heightens the insight and the humor with a bit of surprise.  

Becky 


> On Feb 9, 2015, at 4:08 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> All true but, for the historical among us, the very idea
> seems to have had no currency (from searching in ALL THE BOOKS
> Google has ever put up online; all of the now public domain books
> from Gutenberg on; all of the works of history about the past; all
> of the concurrent in their times books.)
> 
> 
> Related but different: PTSD was alluded to in this Read as shorthand
> for trauma experienced (by Mason?). That works as an anachronous way
> of describing trauma but PTSD as Post-traumatic-stress-disorder
> was first named around 1955 and became prominent in these United States
> only after the Vietnam war.
> 
> Before then, it had other names; shell-shock perhaps the leading name.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:45 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Pretty 'radical' idea for the time, yes?  Tougher turn of the screw on
>>> the idea that marriage is > institutionalized prostitution.
>> 
>> Mason and Dixon would know all about this radical idea; especially
>> Dixon because as Quaker his is the first Christian church to give
>> public forum to women who take full advantage of it, allying
>> themselves with other oppressed groups, such as, naturally, the
>> enslaved and indentured, and prostitutes.    As learned men it would
>> be impossible for our boys to avoid this radical idea. Of course, in
>> Pynchon's mad comedy, all things are ampersanded, so tht folly and
>> hypocrisy abound.
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