Pynchonian Rorschach

[MantaRay at aol.com]

Jules and the PynHeads:

>Jules
>just keeps adding to that already thick file labeled: "Jules Seigel."

I'm late in forming intelligent responses to various posts, due to my short
vacation in Hell.A (I'll get to you, Jester ol' pal), but I had to clip this
and send. Most of your objections to TRP's lit seem based on the above
self-referential axiom, which is all I pointed out in my "cute . . .
double-speak." Your dissatisfaction with Vineland stems from its supposed
inauthenticity (you abstain from saying it's "bad writing" but the damage is
done; the only reason it would be bad is because it doesn't jibe with your
impressions of the period, the dialects, blah). What I said was using this
model as a basis for judgments on anything (not only lit) is self-absorbed.
What I don't get is how you expect your personal histories to be of any help
to the rest of us who think that you might be off. 

MantaRay, who'll get smarter as the night goes on, he promises