guys 'n dolls [was Re: wallace-l: DFW Wins Big]

[Vaska]

Meg as one-of-the-guys:

>>
>Steve, talking about his wife: 
>
>> our discussions of writing. "You know," she said, "these are all guy
>> novels, written by guys, for guys. When you cut through all of the
>
>Gee, and all this time I thought I was a girl who liked TRP.  A-and I like
>Hemingway, too, so I better go have a talk with my parents

Which reminds me of the young Roger Waters scwoling his way through some
shots in "Pink Floyd at Pompei," ready to kill the tv interviewer who'd
asked his opinion of a music producer better left namless: "Yeah, he knows
what he *likes* [all snarly contempt], that's the extent of it..."  

I love Pynchon's writing, have for years, but also have to agree with
Steve's wife that very large chunks of it are "novels... for guys."   Still,
compared to Mailer's....

Vaska