Excellent! BTW, I spent a year and a half on the Vineland chapter of my diss and totally concur with the need to have a "willingness to follow deeply into the historical territory...in any given novel" (the key phrase in VL for me = "look it up, check it out"), and of course with the sentence-by-sentence fugue of his genius which you so capably evoke)...
Also: I have spent the remainder of my "career" so far playing circle/square with what TRP and Kundera have taught me, so double thanks for your piece, the highlight of my day.
Pynchon’s Quixotic heroes who are “flawed and jaded but still believe that things have meaning and matter” are reminiscent of Michael Connelly’s hero Bosch who live by the human code that “Everyone matters or nobody does.”
Extraordinary. Attention spans may twitch, but Pynchon hands you a tuning fork. Under the plot, the radio; under the radio, the ghosts.
Excellent! BTW, I spent a year and a half on the Vineland chapter of my diss and totally concur with the need to have a "willingness to follow deeply into the historical territory...in any given novel" (the key phrase in VL for me = "look it up, check it out"), and of course with the sentence-by-sentence fugue of his genius which you so capably evoke)...
Also: I have spent the remainder of my "career" so far playing circle/square with what TRP and Kundera have taught me, so double thanks for your piece, the highlight of my day.
Your women are being raped at mass scale by grooming gangs and your response is to write, this…
Pynchon’s Quixotic heroes who are “flawed and jaded but still believe that things have meaning and matter” are reminiscent of Michael Connelly’s hero Bosch who live by the human code that “Everyone matters or nobody does.”