M & D The Read as long as the Line. "What, Our Time not precious!" guffaws a traveling sales Representative.--p 344.

[Mark Kohut]

pp 351-352 And here we get  a discussion of Hamlet! In which it is asked
whether he really existed along with Ophelia.
As happens in Ulysses, when Stephen D goes on about HIS Hamlet thesis. And
more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_in_popular_culture

In which Ethelmer declares that it is more likely Ophelia broke his heart
than vice versa! The women, the girl-women in M $ D....discuss

(This, after a discussion whether Shakespeare's
history plays are 'true'.)

Comments requested.

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 5:44 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Chap 34-35. One of the bleeding hearts of the book, yes?
> ( side bit: in his construction of his fictions, in which his themes and
> meanings
> do pervade everywhere, yet he does seem to shape some of the deepest
> profundity into the centers of his fictions, no? Builds to it, then follows
> the slope-out
> to the end, sorta?)
>
> Anyway, these chapters contain the oft-quoted lines "Who claims Truth,
> Truth Abandons"....and "Does Brittania when she sleeps dream? Is America
> her dream?--
> ....A very Rubbish-Tip for subjunctive Hopes" [reduced] to
> declarative...Simplicities "that serve the ends of Governments---" and read
> on [p345]
>
> We get the Reverend's book on history, Christ and History. We get lots of
> perspectives on history--how false it is."Who Claims Truth, Truth Abandons"
> ....[History is] a great disorderly Tangle of Lines"....--Cherrycoke...
>
> We get, perhaps Pynchon's deepest 'ambiguities' about human
> nature,--inherent vice [evil] or a legacy of History. See the horrors
> recounted,--the Massacre Site, [p 344]  while a man of good conscience,
> Dixon, still sleeps OK.
>
> We get another anti-government attitude, another tidbit of TRP's
> 'anarchist-like' vision of people--"winning away from the realm of the
> Sacred"..."into the bare mortal world that is our own", in a novel  about a
> country forming itself into one.
>
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