pynchon's misogyny

[Greg Montalbano]

 > However, for other members of the readership (certainly the 
>experience of  an African-American reading Twain),  experience of that 
>irony would be profoundly different                                            
 Perhaps.  And perhaps their experience would be just as profoundly
different if they read exactly the same material, but written by an
African-American author like Ishmael Reed;  which brings up ...
                                                                            
    >  In a sense, Twain is 
>both racist and not-racist at the same time, 
....as are we all;  the question is, how do we deal with this in a socially
and personally responsible manner?                               

>This leads us to Greg's point that 
>"this is what the ability to READ A NOVEL is all about"- is this to say 
>that there is a correct, right way of reading a novel (i.e. gauging its 
>meaning).

No.  Not my intent that there is "one right way". 
  Greg