<div dir="ltr"><div>Equipped for what, dude? Reading Pynchon is tough. Hey, that's one of the reasons I've been doing it all these years, one of the reasons I read all that stuff other readers write about P's works. I appreciate the experts, the people who come at the text from a focused angle, who dive down deep into a passage and make connections with other texts and ideas, experts from other disciplines who enrich my reading.</div>
<div> </div><div> I support a pluralistic approach. </div><div> </div><div>But your approach is to deny the carpenter. He's the little man. Your the expert who has esoteric knowledge the rest of don't and can never have. A member of the elect. That's you, Monte. So fucking rocket science. </div>
<div> </div><div>And, don't confuse me with others who can't kick your ass in the science ring. </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>And remember, you had trouble reading Pynchon's prose. His irony fooled you into thinking you were equipped. </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Monte Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:montedavis@verizon.net" target="_blank">montedavis@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">AW> </span>I don't know if Pynchon consults with scientists, but to write a novel the ones he's written, or to read one, and this is far more important to our discussion, one need know very little about Tesla or Physics. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">And no one would deny that by this standard you are well equipped indeed.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>