BtZ42/10 Down the toilet, phases

[Mark Kohut]

I have always read the desert as The Fifties in the United States, a
depressive, dry, deadly to the self decade, as Mailer and others are always
saying. And even as Pynchon implies in V.

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 4:35 PM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 65-70 (Viking) A general and personal impression: however much I like this
> books, after the brilliance of the passage trough the iron tunnel with its
> cameos of fellow students, including Jack Kennedy, and the Dali-like
> hyper-realism of the shitwave scene, the "waste regions" and the Western
> scenes have always been an anticlimax for me, hitting me as artificial and
> pedestrian. It was very trying to translate them. Or is deliberate: with
> Jack Kennedy not helping any more, reaching an American desert (both late
> 60s and Depression-time)?
>
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