"Difficult"

[Ernest Lee Luning]

I count myself, rather, among a readership preterite (else I'd be reading
Clancy et al - recall that Hunt for Red October made the leap from obscure
minor-press curiosity to national phenom only after being photographed on
RWReagan's desk). Hell, I even often fail to hit the "save" command when
composing these notes.

Bean wrote:
>Okay, so Pynchon is hard---isn't that what we like, in part, about his
>work?  Being part of the *elite* that struggles (and not without reward!)
>with his often jumpy and opaque plot twists? [emphasis added]

Although your reading method (once for sheer fun, once to discern what's
happening, once again around the ol' hermenutic circleŠ) is exactly mine.




Ernest Lee Luning

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