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

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. 

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

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