M&D chapter 35: TRPs Phizz, POMO, and a nod towards VL

[David Casseres]

Greg sez

[quotation from M&D, Cherrycoke talking about History:

"...that there may ever continue more than one life-line back into a
Past we risk, each day, losing our forbears in forever,-- not a Chain of
single Links, for one broken Link could lose us All,-- rather, a great
disorderly Tangle of Lines...."]

>Much more interesting (to me) than some pixels allegedly representing the
>face of a "recluse" author is the true face of Pynchon THE WRITER grinning
>up out of this paragraph -- in the best tradition of post-modernism, we
>have here in a few sentences the fictional narrator (and above that, the
>author) speaking to us directly about what he's (they're) doing with this
>book...  not to mention an explanation/defense of VINELAND (the subject
>matter of which so many of you found so "trivial").
>
>So there.

There, indeed.  With writing like this supposedly in our faces, how in 
the world can we waste so much time on trivial gossip about the citizen 
who is believed to have written it?


Cheers,
David