Not Pynchon, but Morrison and some similar tropes

[Mark Kohut]

Ms Morrison's* The Bluest Eye, 1970 *has a Shirley Temple riff
and dandelion wine and

as Toni writes in a 1993 essay on this, her first novel, included as the
afterword
to the 2000 Borzoi book reissue, she, as Pynchon does *The Crying of Lot
49,*
thinks it very flawed.


Unlike him she spells out some of her reasons, the main one perhaps
contained in her
closing words: a failure "to shape a silence while breaking it"......

Earlier, "the void that is Pecola's "unbeing' . It should have had a shape
---like the emptiness of
a boom or a cry"...."she is not *seen* by herself until she hallucinates a
self".

In a novel so full of gazes, the Gaze, being seen, wanting to be seen, eyes
and a mirror
and the internalizing of all that. ---MK