Why are the peasants "Dutch"?

[Monte Davis]

I don't know what P had in mind, but it's always been this for me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_of_Cockaigne_(Bruegel)

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> "All these horizontal here, these comrades in arms, look just as rosy as a
> bunch of Dutch peasants dreaming of their certain resurrection in the next
> few minutes." (pp. 4-5)
>
> Is Pynchon thinking here of a particular Dutch painting from art history,
> or is this the first appearance of the Katje Borgesius thread? Or both or
> neither?
>
>
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