Unabombast, Festering Manifesto

Daniel Stein stein at magma.geol.ucsb.edu
Wed Sep 20 17:11:17 CDT 1995


It couldn't be Pynchon - no one who writes that well could blather on for
nearly a hundred pages writing with (according to K. Sale):

> the leaden language and stilted diction, the fondness for sociological
>jargon and >psychobabble, and the repeated use of "we argue that" and "we
>now discuss" and the >like, (that) make it certain that this was written
>by someone whose writing style, and >probably whole intellectual
>development, was arrested in college


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