crystal palace & T.S.Eliot & Henry Adams (other Pynchon faves)

[Mark Kohut]

The aforementioned series of lectures by Bernard DeVoto called
The Literary Fallacy, his title for an exploration of the major ways
he thinks (many/most) writers and cultural critics
miss reality in their attempts to write about it has this:

Re: Adams, he states and gives an example or two of how Adams,
proclaiming in the Education that he missed out on what was really
happening in America all
his life, was, not surprisingly, wrong, wrong, wrong
when he does makes observations about aspects of America!
&
"if we had time it would be instructive to examine literary thinking at its
extremity,
in the crystal palace of Mr. T. S.Eliot. Mr Eliot has many distinctions,
among them having
written the poem in which this entire movement [he, Pound, other
modernists] agreed
to find its age expressed."

Nice use of 'crystal palace' as a complete mental edifice.
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