"Whereas Mr. Pynchon’s last novel, the stunning “Mason & Dixon,” demonstrated a new psychological depth, depicting its two heroes as full-fledged human beings, not merely as pawns in the author’s philosophical chess game, the people in “Against the Day” are little more than stick figure cartoons."
Like Zack Zizek points out, the depiction of "full-fledged human beings" is the hallmark card of ideology.
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MICHIKO KAKUTANI is an idiot.
"Whereas Mr. Pynchon’s last novel, the stunning “Mason & Dixon,” demonstrated a new psychological depth, depicting its two heroes as full-fledged human beings, not merely as pawns in the author’s philosophical chess game, the people in “Against the Day” are little more than stick figure cartoons."
Like Zack Zizek points out, the depiction of "full-fledged human beings" is the hallmark card of ideology.
Say more, klaus - no more tortured pincushion than what we mean by "human."
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