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'''"a mule dropping on the edge of life's mountain trail, ready to be either squashed flat or kicked into the void"'''<br>
Brings directly in mind a scene from Cormac McCarthy's ''Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness In The West'': "The following evening as they rode up onto the western rim they lost one of the mules. It went skittering off down the canyon wall with the contents of the panniers exploding soundlessly in the hot dry air and it fell through sunlight and through shade, turning in that lonely void until it fell from sight into a sink of cold blue space that absolved it forever of memory in the mind of any living thing that was." (Modern Library Edition 2001, p. 147). The novel is set about 45 years before ATD (1849-50) at the Mexico - Texas borderlands. In fact, due to Pynchon's frequent references to ''red'' light and ''west'' (pages 41, 59, 63, 86, 784 so far and counting), I suspect a kind of deeper relation between the two novels, but more evidence is required.
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