Why are the peasants "Dutch"?

[Mark Kohut]

I like that Breughel picture....we have to notice he has preterites,
peasants, dreaming of their resurrection here....and the metaphor describes
the whole sick preterite crew that is here.
Not the usual Calvinist Elites.......

I cannot myself see the appearance of the Katje Borgesius thread but....say
why that's possible. .

On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>   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.
>
> > On 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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