M & D Group Read "Make 'Em Laugh"...

[Johnny Marr]

Not sure, I find the Paranoids section of TCOL49 very funny. I do
appreciate your wider point, that TRP's intentionally writing in a more
humorous fashion, but then he's always favoured the picaresque.

On Thursday, February 26, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Becky writes: This novel has some very serious themes, but told with a
> LOT of humor - not just humor to lighten the atmosphere -there's
> actually a comic tone.
>
> So true..a friend of mine thinking of reading it for the first time,
> dipped in...so hilarious, he said (and he knows some other Pynchons).
>
> Laughs, laughs everywhere. Maybe another part of the Tale-Telling
> meaning: Make 'Em Laugh, Make 'Em Laugh, Make 'Em Laugh.
> This tone may not be seen in any other work until INHERENT VICE?? he
> says controversially.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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