DFW defense

[Richard Nance]

I thinks Chris O. is pretty dead-on regarding IJ (yeah, I like Wallace),
except regarding the comparative dessication of Pynchon's prose.  Haven't  a
whole lot on the matter, but the notion of Pynchon's prose as other than
fecund (in comparison with *anyone*) is a little odd, at least to me.
Depends, of course, on what one wants to grow ;)

And William Vollmann's name hasn't popped up in all this comparative
rambling.  Has he just been resolutely dismissed at some prior time? (like I
said, I'm new around here) Because (to keep with the biological metaphor)
the guy is a veritable rainforest -- to my mind, at least.  Some people may
just not be too fond of undergrowth...

R.
UChicago 
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'But, if you are *certain*, isn't it that you are shutting your eyes in the
face of doubt?' -- They are shut.
                           Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, IIxi 
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