M&D Deep Duck Read.

[Mark Kohut]

Alice reminds us that Pynchon writes Romances in the 19th Century,
Hawthorne, Melville sense.
Richard Chase was the definer of the contours and strength of Romance.
Two snippets related to Pynchon

"Chase finds in it a new American romance genre peculiarly suited for
exploring unresolved contradictions ..
While Chase cautions the reader against any excessively rigid
definitions of the American prose romance, he does state that since
romance as a genre is less committed to verisimilitude than the novel,
it tends to veer more toward myth, ...'

M & D: Mythic America, full of contradictions, eh? (I went to school in Canada)
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