“Shall I project a world?”
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
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Measure in Everything and Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing shows us the poet at the height of his creative powers. His verse had yet to find that deeper timbre we later hear in Macbeth and King Lear. But as Swinburn expresses it, “for absolute power of composition, faultless balance, and blameless rectitude of design, there is no creation of Shakespeare’s that will bear comparisonContinue reading “Measure in Everything and Much Ado About Nothing“
Shall I Project a World? A Meditation on The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon has a reputation as a difficult novelist. If we come to his fictions fresh from the tradition of American Naturalism, we may be lulled by their humorous, jokey tone into a belief that all is most conventional. The writer is obviously just poking a little fun, engaging in a bit of satire. WeContinue reading “Shall I Project a World? A Meditation on The Crying of Lot 49“
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