Re: MDDM Washington

--- Paul Mackin 
> 
> My question of last evening remains: What's the
> point of all of this. There
> must be a hidden meaiing somewhere.
> 
> P.

Did anyone else find this all very funny the first
time round? Gee, I hate to spoil all the fun, but P's
cartoons are (From Tony Tanner's book, page 234

very amusing and enjoyable, if we submit, for the
moment, to a cartoon version of history. At the same
time very serious and momentous events are in fact
being looked at and engaged with, but through a ludic
and distincly unofficial medium -- "indeed", if I
might quote Pynchon on Mason and Dixon's labours and
apply it 
to his own work, 

"a spirit of whimsy pervades the entire history of
these...Boundaries, as if in playful refusal to admit
that America, in any way may be serious." 

Niether Doug nor Jbore can make the argument because
they are more interested in making the other guy look
like an idiot. Or making me into the problem with the
LIST. 

Do see Tanner's best essay, on the Melville's C-M. 

Oh, it's simply the best essay on M&D around. 







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