M&D preambulatory profferings

[Mark Kohut]

A couple--three quite smart readers of M &D, who find lots to like
in sections upon sections end up in their reviews (or blog posts) saying
the disappointment is that unlike P's other works it is all jokes,
no coherence.

I want to get to the end this time and find the coherence--or not.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:49 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd love to hear some words from those who already hold this book
> close to their hearts. There are a lot of veteran P-listers who put
> the novel near (even higher than!) Gravity's Rainbow in that friendly
> fascist framework we call Favourites.
>
> Me, I've never dig-dug the book the way I dig-do V. or GR or VL or BE
> but I've always put that down to personal experience or font-size or
> perhaps cultural materialism.
>
> But mostly I've put it down to the fact that I've never been to the US
> (outside of a TV or cinema screen). I have no deep, internalised,
> situated knowledge of America and the shouted and whispered
> conversation it has been having with its divided selves for so many
> centuries. Some other non-US readers here have professed their
> appreciation of the book so I'm not claiming this is an American-only
> novel.
>
> STILL: I would really love to hear people throw out a few lines
> describing what this Pynchon novel is. I want to hear love songs to
> the thing, though I feel my ear is tinny and poorly tuned. Ring true!
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