Why are the peasants "Dutch"?

[Mark Kohut]

for me, it has been a Bosch I think, which I can't find, of happy
peasants skating and picnicking wherein 'the dreaming' is their
happy-otherworldy look, so to speak.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:15 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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