Why are the peasants "Dutch"?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

And if he was trying to get at the roots of all this, the Dutch East Indies Company - which he finally got to write about in M&D - must have loomed large.

Laura


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>From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
>Sent: Mar 18, 2016 9:30 AM
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>Subject: Re: Why are the peasants "Dutch"?
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>  I suggested Calvinism/Capitalism in an earlier post. It is interesting that Pynchon does not let the Dutch off too easy in GR or M&D. Isn’t the  Dodo Killer Dutch too and related to Katje? There is the Breughel painting with peasants lying in a field under  tree taking a break during the wheat harvest. Dont remember the title. 
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>> On Mar 18, 2016, at 4:59 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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>> "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)
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>> 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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