There is also a discussion of Columbus in Vineland, p. 133 ff. "On inertial navigation, knowing she'd know what she was looking for when she found it, DL didn't stop till the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio. . . . ."
Against The Day is great, much better than Mason & Dixon, but hard to say it's more explicitly political than V., (which has a best discussion of imperialism outside Conrad's Heart of Darkness), Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland . . . .
Brian wouldn't like this stuff tho. No mise en scene. ;->
--- Jim Straub <rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey speaking of TRP, is anyone reading the new
> Pynchon book Against The
> Day? I love it love it love it; but I'm a big
> Pynchonite already. His most
> explicitly political book ever tho I think.
>
> Also, the book has a couple funny lines about
> Columbus OH. Andie is from
> there huh? A lot of columbus represent here. In
> the interests of full
> disclosure, I should admit I'm going to have to join
> Yoshie's populist islam
> kick now that I live where she does, buckeye loyalty
> and all.
>
> Fatah out of gaza!
> etc. :)
>
>
>
> >
> > I make no effort to conceal my identify but my
> address, if not
> > obvious, is in reference to the first part of
> Pynchon's _Gravity's
> > Rainbow_: Beyond The Zero. Merely because it was
> one of those (at the
> > time) life-changing books.
> >
> >
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