ATD Vs MD

[Joseph Tracy]

One of the strongest aspects of Ps writing for me is the way he invokes the evolving forces that shape an era in all its promise and tragedy: the science,myths, fiction, contests, inventions, desires. It is the details and social/personal struggles specific to the time that illuminate in a fresh way the period and the large themes of colonialism, power, revolutionary change etc. He gives us another time , but with hindsight and foresight, with comic brilliance and surprises from real history. I personally see ATD as a masterwork and Vineland as a personal favorite and his funniest book. 

Just saying...
> On May 8, 2018, at 9:40 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I would agree but I dont think there was anything strangely polemic about
> AtD, only that it was the first work in a series of what are pretty
> transparent screeds against capitalism, the security state,
> government/police overreach, corporate fascism, ideas he somewhat covered
> in the earlier books but in a much more complex way and interesting way.
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 1:41 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> MG was endearing, sympathetic, but still strange and provoking.
>> 
>> ATD was strangely polemic and abstract.  It's human interactions were
>> unreal models of obtuse dichotomies.  I think Vineland is his worst example
>> of that tendency.
>> 
>> Just saying...
>> 
>> David Morris
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