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Doesn't this opening remind anyone of the opening to Chapter Two of
_Against The Day_?

The imagery in _AGTD_ may be a poaching parody, of Upton Sinclair and
others of the period, as McHale argues, and following that analysis we
should look for film parody and poach here, but here in this opening
of GR,  I am inclined to read this opening a not a parody or a poach,
but as the imagination of a writer who has been influenced, as
critical studies argue, by everyone and everything, but who has hit
his stride and is writing in a style that is rightfully and especially
his own. The anxiety of influence, so glaring in all previous works is
ground to dust. Though Mumford and Dickens and Orwell echo here, in
the imagery, Pynchon has a style all his own and what a style it is.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Ray Easton
<raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I loathe statements about literature of the form "it feels to me like..."  (
> pace, Mark -- not aiming at you, but only at myself! ), but I do have to say
> that some of what follows after the dream "feels to me like" the beginning
> of Ulysses.  Felt so my first reading and has every time since.
>
> I cannot figure out why, though -- and the why is what matters.
>
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> On March 16, 2016 6:37:02 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Distinct feeling of Mulligan at Ulysses opening now that you mention it.
>> Wholly changed but in comic tone and meaning
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:02 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> And the first rebirth is a Pirate, followed by Bloat.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> “There are proceedings of such a delicate nature that it is well to
>>> overwhelm them with coarseness and make them unrecognisable; there are
>>> actions of love and of extravagant magnanimity after which nothing can be
>>> wiser than to take a stick and thrash the witness soundly…“ Nietzsche, BG&E,
>>> 29.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And what is Pirate‘s relation to Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus,
>>> anyway?
>>
>>
>
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