GW, hepcat

[Monte Davis]

> Still something of the hidden gravity of the scene, despite the serious
quest for "getting it right" it has engendered, seems to have been missed,
and perhaps something of its pure comic effect, as well. <

I don't think we're missing either; it's just that inevitably we murder to
dissect. We analyze, diachronically, Pynchonian effects that are magical
precisely because he pulls them off synchronically. [NB: that last sentence
may or may not make more sense if you swap the adverbs.]

If we were skilled enough to express all the gravity and all the comedy at
the same time, we'd *be* TRP, no?

-Monte <you could do much worse than McElroy, BTW>