SLOW LEARNER

[Paul Mackin]

>From Rick Moody:

> Now I find, with attention, that my interest in these stories is
inversely
> proportionate, really, to what TP says about them. 

>>>>>Not so strange maybe.  The author is seldom the best  judge, is he?


> I actually thought "Low-lands" and "Entropy" interesting and
> definitely by the same guy who wrote V. and LOT 49. "Under the Rose,"
> meanwhile had some of the bleached quality of some of the most mannered
stuff
> in G.R. 

>>>>>Can see Rick's point, but the basis of comparison for the new book
will end up being  GR, not V., won't it?

Maybe comparisons won't apply that much. M&D should be very very different.
The
rather bizarre subject matter might assure as much. It's almost scary to
contemplate.

Do we WANT Pynch building on what has gone before, or striking off
completely anew?

Speaking for myself, I just don't know.

						P.