Pynchon (was: One last modernist yap)

Jack Lyons · 27 Oct 1999, 20:08 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: Jack Lyons <revjack at radix.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Pynchon (was: One last modernist yap)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:08:49
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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Robert King wrote:

:I found most of Mason & Dixon one of the most enjoyable
:books I've read in the past couple years, although there's
:this overly long middle section which seems to exist merely
:so he can string along a series of bizarro vignettes that
:don't add a lot to the whole.=20

At least one of those vignettes seems to exist solely so
that he can wrap it up with the ghastly "Dutch ado about
nothing" comment from one of the protagonists. urk

--=20
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