Pynchon and the Status Quo

[Jason Witherspoon]

At 4:52 PM 2/26/97, Andrew Clarke Walser wrote:
>        If some works of aesthetic distinction survive, and others vanish,
>surely those that last do so, in part, because they conform to one
>dominant ideology or another.  Obviously, Pynchon has established his
>credentials as a critic:  we personify the powers he questions as Them.
>But what Yes (in a whisper) balances his No In Thunder?  I assume he would
>not enjoy the acceptance he does -- from universities to popular culture
>-- if he did not prop up something.

Uh, the Counterforce?

                                                  Jason Witherspoon

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