Don't cry for me, drug dealers of NoCal.. *sniff*

[Peter 13]

Sojourner quotes :
  >I think that original quotation reveals Pynchon's ignorance of 
spoken
      >Yiddish and his reliance on library research rather than 
real-life
      >experience. I could point out many similar discrepancies in 
Vineland and
      >Gravity's Rainbow. His worlds are invented worlds. They have 
their own
      >internal logic and integrity but they don't show a lot of 
fact-for-fact
      >congruence with the real worlds that people seem to want to see 
reflected in
      >them.
      >
I say:
Gee, itsn't that part of what makes them great novels. I guess James 
Joyce is also a failure in the eyes of those who smoked a little too much 
dope in the sixties

Sojorner says:
      La la la all the day long...   I do believe that every book Mr. 
Pynchon
      wrote from V. onwards was always clearly labelled as FICTION

I say:
What could be more useless than to complain that asurreal work of 
fiction is not an accurate portrait of a real event . Only somebody with 
nothing to say about literature could come up with such an idiotic remark.

By the way, has anybody noticed the following irony : In LINELAND the 
author apparently enjoys implying that Pynchon has pedophile tendencies 
(see Jester's review) but in the article on who Thomas Pynchon is, the 
same author admits to having pedophile tendencies himself. Kinda weird