Pynchon genius

[Greg Montalbano]

Paul Macklin's cry for help:


>Does anyone have trouble besides me with the genius of
>Pynchon concept? Is Pynchon merely text, or textuality
>(eeek), that happens to resonate for us, or is there a
>great god-given writer out there name of Thomas Pynchon
>who is so fantastically clever with words and ideas
>that the world must beat a path to his door, so to speak.

Not to be obvious, but "all of the abov
>I know I am forever citing the Pynchon genius at this
>or at that, then hating myself for it an instant later.
>But what can you do when you see something you especially
>like? It's natural to think there's something behind it,
>besides the material conditions of whatever. But how well
>does our P fit the great writer syndrome of the past?
>Normal Mailer was a great writer to no insignificant
>extent through forever proclaiming the fact to the world.
>He challeged all others to better him either at the
>keyboard or the fight ring. Is other words, it was a
>PR job, a military campaign. But Pynchon just maintains
>silence. Has Pynchon ever done anything to stake out a
>genius slot on the writing scene, besides just turning
>out good books? Does he need to, does anyone think? Is 
>the p-list an adequate substitute? Are we his foot 
>soldiers, secretly guided to action by forces unseen? 
>Yep, it's gotta be this last.
>
>Don't expect to get any answers but can't help 
>wondering . . .
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>			P.
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