Mortality & Mercy in Vienna

[David Morris]

Too much morality for my taste, and so clunky to boot!  This feels like it
was written by a high schooler.

On Friday, January 8, 2016, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The more I 'analyze' this story, the more problematic it is to me.
> Some over the top
> symbols and allusions and symbolic motivation I don't think I get.....
>
> Yes, the motivation does not seem 'earned', right?....but wha is it?
>
> Siegel is Mercy?....the Ojibway is Mortality? .......I cannot
> think the influence of the play into this story.......so different..
> ---- Vienna is absolutely corrupt, known.......and I guess DC is
> supposed to be too.....
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/vienna.html
> >
> > Starts in rain. (see Small Rain and P on that symbolism borrowed from
> Hem)
> >
> > a party. like Entropy.
> > music   like Entropy
> >
> > girl named Rachel. Like V. Who doesn't show.(absent)
> >
> > Zeit [Time] as in V. a doctor here.
> >
> > P-like crazy names.
> >
> > very overt Catholicism imagery. and a mother who refutes it at 19.
> >
> > what else?
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