The Work of Thomas Pynchon with Gregory Marks
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The Humans Aren't the Humans' Desires
In his early works, those first three novels, there is that real sense that, a, people don't matter. I think even down to the sort of ridiculous names that he gives his characters,. Some of them seem almost as one off jokes. And and these novels will then return to, these are broad pictures of the years of history turning and the people being lost within them. But i don't no, don thnk that really holds in his later novels. Even in vineland and mason and dixonad and the novels that hat follow those two, there is a clear sense of what its what is at stake for people as as individuals and as memberso communities.
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