A simple Pynchon:Gaddis anal-o[r]gy

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jesper andersen wrote:

> As much as we might all hate to admit it, M&D is not by any means a work of
> genius.  It is rather a confused and overworked struggle to beat out
> Gravity's Rainbow as the novel to end all novels.  I had tremendous hopes
> for Mason & DIxon and went out and bought it the first day, but the book
> fails to live up my own expectations and those set by the reviewers who
> hailed it as being a work of genius.  It simply isn't write to attack Keith
> for pointed what mnay scholars understand to be a problem among encyclpedic
> authors: when you've once attempted to write the be all and end all of
> novels, what do you have left to say.  For other examples, perhaps more
> clear than Gaddis, see both Powers and Joyce.
>      Jesper Andersen
>      Haverford College
>      janderse at haverford.edu
>
>      (610) 896-8470

Jesper--

You are basically saying the same thing Keith said, and I have no impulse to
respond to you as I did to him.  I think it is fair for you to offer your
opinion.  I think it was fair for Keith to offer his opinion, and I think it
was fair for me to offer my opinion.  And I think it was fair for me to use
Keith's own words to illustrate my point about criticism.  And I have a feeling
that Keith can take it judging from his style of expression.

Sz