M&D preambulatory profferings

[alice malice]

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> An excellent discussion on this topic all round.
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> A question: if Pynchon is subverting the  historical and political
> notions of belonging, who holds the notions he subverts?

Are these the notions of a reader? One who has notions about history
and politics that are too simple, not Pynchon's,  in need of
correction? What? Are the notions the reader has created by the
narrative? In other words, does Pynchon subvert these notions to make
fun of his readers? To subvert is a tool of the satirists. No? Why
would he subvert these notions, many of them given to or hinted at by
the text? Or by history & politics? To make fools of his readers? To
tickle them out of their foolish notions?

A Jewish Slave in Washington's home is hardly a method of subversion.
Or is it? More hysterical as I see it.

Maybe I don't know enough about America to get all the subversion, but
then, is Pynchon writing for only those who specialize in American
Colonial History?
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