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A review by lieslindi
Bound to Please: An Extraordinary One-Volume Literary Education by Michael Dirda
Grape gravy, this author is more elitist that I am. (I reckon his interjections are more hifalutin than Monty Python.)
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His review of Mason & Dixon means that if I ever get around to that tome I'll have to be on my toes. I like that Pynchon has a "seaman named O'Brian, old Pat being the best storyteller in the navy, with an unrivaled knowledge of complicated rigging." That's an allusion I get (though whether I would have caught it on my own is another issue). This one, however, eludes me:
I have no idea what that's about and a google search of those three names turns up only ... this book.
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His review of Mason & Dixon means that if I ever get around to that tome I'll have to be on my toes. I like that Pynchon has a "seaman named O'Brian, old Pat being the best storyteller in the navy, with an unrivaled knowledge of complicated rigging." That's an allusion I get (though whether I would have caught it on my own is another issue). This one, however, eludes me:
When Dixon angrily frees some slaves, he decides to whip, maybe even kill, their swaggering, foul-mouth exploiter, who immediately crumples and pleads, "No! Please! My little ones! O Tiffany! Jason! Scott" Clearly there are still no boundaries to Thomas Pynchon's genius.
I have no idea what that's about and a google search of those three names turns up only ... this book.