Does it not say something about Pynchon as an artist...

[Mark Kohut]

to speak to your words: from a 2010 online 'review':

"Reading 'Mason & Dixon' (and its underappreciated successor 'Against
the Day') I thrill to the syntax of a writer gifted, inventive and
artful enough to be able to keep everything in. So much of the
pleasure is at the level of the sentence, hopping from stop to stop
and seeing that it's not only all there but it's all in order too......
These days even Dr Johnson knows he may not presume too much on his
readers' time, but Pynchon refutes the tyranny of brevity. In truth
it's more a matter of awe than parsing for me. To borrow a phrase from
Amelia, a "Milk-Maid of Brooklyn" with a cute line in antique teenage
idiom, I'm, as, 'maz'd. 'Mason & Dixon' is my book of a lifetime
precisely because my own teens were long gone by the time it came out:
it showed me that being exhilarated by prose is not just an effect of
youthful overexcitement.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...that we can find and say SO DAMN MUCH about Mason & Dixon...
>
> without even having cracked the damn cover yet?!
>
> I mean, hot-DAMN!
>
> MT
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