Contradictions

[Paul Mackin]

> Clarification:  what I meant by contradicting myself here is that in the
> first sentence I say that what Pynchon knew or didn't know when he wrote it
> isirelevent, and, implyedly not discernable from the text.  Then in the
> second sentence I go shooting my keyboard off about Pynchon's idea of
> reading.  If I'm right about the first part, I certainly have no business
> attributing an idea of reading to an author who aint there.

Mathew,
	Thanks for the clarification. I guess a didn't see a 
contradiction. I saw Pynchon as possilby an authoritative voice on 
literary criticism, not just of his own books but in general. But if his 
putative advice appears in fictional form (in the novel) and we choose to 
heed it, I guess we do at least have a paradox on our hands.

				Pablo