what to read before the Read?

[Mike Sauve]

Not sure if it came up but *Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Thomas
Pynchon *concludes
with three good essays on M & D dealing with key themes like the
subjunctive possibilities of what America might have become, the
astronomer's ongoing struggle to reconcile the rational with the
supernatural, and the biggest toy in the ontological sandbox: *time*, of
which Emerson says in the novel, "Out of mercy, we are blind to..."

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 12:42 PM, bulb <bulb at vheissu.net> wrote:

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> *From:* owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Mark Kohut
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> *To:* Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Gene DA <genevievej.da at gmail.com>; Jochen Stremmel <
> jstremmel at gmail.com>; Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>; John
> Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>; Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject:* Re: what to read before the Read?
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> Seconded by this reader, weak in history reading although I am now of an
> historic age,  who learned of it in this stenciled way as well.
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> It can make you think of M & D in a kind of Where's Waldo? way or as if
> they are the invisible Zeligs of this history, so to speak.
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