what to read before the Read?

[da kid]

I think he makes a lot of Moby Dick allusions but I haven't read all of that classic book so Im not really sure how significant that intertextuality is. Id like to read the chapter titled 'The Town-Ho's Story'.
P. Loves the Orpheus myth. It seems to be very important to his overall philosophy.
He makes alot of references to the Bible too.

-Pete
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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..."

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Good luck.



Michel.



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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.



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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