A Soul In Ev'ry Stone

[Deng, Stephen]

This is true.  However, it's important to remember what Virginia Woolf said 
in Three Guineas:
"If we use art to propagate political opinions, we must force the artist to 
clip and cabin his gift to do us a cheap and passing service" (170, n. 39)


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From:  Tom Stanton[SMTP:tstanton at nationalgeographic.com]
Sent:  Saturday, April 05, 1997 7:27 AM
To:  pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject:  Re: A Soul In Ev'ry Stone


Poles? Here? Come, come, my good man. Seriously, I can't ever separate
the literary from the cultural/political themes. That's why it's such a 
great
book. By way of example, I see "Ulysses" as being 90% literary tour de 
force
with a smattering of social commentary, whereas "1984" is a highly charged
political tract presented as a literary work. GR succeeds by expertly
balalncing
both extremes.