pynchon/stoppard
Teen Age Riot
alwang at eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Thu Feb 15 23:59:33 CST 1996
At 03:12 AM 2/15/96 -0500, Benjamin L Nussbaum wrote:
> 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
Hmmm, I dunno. I love Pynchon's work because it's smartly written, not
because he flaunts that smartness. It seems to me that that kind of
watch-me-wow-you approach would flirt with a threshold where a work simply
becomes an exercise in cleverness, a carefully orchestrated "critical" gem,
without requiring the emotional investment from the artist. I like to think
TRP has yet to cross that point.
Al
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