pynchon/stoppard

[Benjamin L Nussbaum]

this is picking up an old thread, but the pynchon/stoppard comparison made 
me think about how perhaps one common link between the two is the way the 
intelligence of the two men perpetually asserts itself in their work -- 
much like in a later pollock painting, the vigour and energy and passion 
and freedom of the artist inevitably make themselves known to the viewer -- 
these sterling individual qualities of pollock hence enervate the work.  
	and likewise i'd argue that the reader of pynchon is perhaps 
made to contemplate the act of the creation of the work -- the brilliance 
of the author -- and . . . 
				hence some of the really wonderful 
qualities that pynchon seems to have as an individual make themselves known 
to the reader (i.e. his intelligence his creativity his "productive 
paranoia" {is that the phrase?}) 

	and that reading one of his works is to some extent the monitoring 
of some really wonderful act of creation -- we feel his massive intelligence 
at work -- and 

		that we remove ourselves from the deadening qualities of 
the modern world by making ourselves aware of the huge intelligence and 
energy and dedication that went into creating a _V_ or a _GR_, and, 
through reading, we watch these qualities manifest themselves.   

	does this make sense to anyone?  is it especially true of pynchon 
as opposed to other writers, other modern writers?