L. Ron Pynchon
mantaray2 at earthlink.net
mantaray2 at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 12 00:20:12 CDT 1997
PynHeadz:
YEAH, SOME DISSENT! I LOVE IT!
It's about time you stuffy old bastards started facing the music. When the
P-List starts consisting of various riffs on Murthy's name, it's either
time to slit the wrists or dial up Jules again.
Mittelwerk, you're a fucking perv, and I mean that in a loving way.
Speaking of, I love the way RealDoll snaked Blade Runner's art direction
for its homepage.
As for Keith Belcher, I agree that it's time to consider the possibility
that M&D might be a failure compared to GR. Why not? Even if it's a crude
way to start a thread, I find it more invigorating that resuscitating the
ketjap allusion. You go, boy! I would have to agree that there isn't much
criticism of the Pyn here nowadays, mostly adoration, which is . . . ok.
But it gets VERY boring, except for maybe Doug, Peter and Andrew. I still
haven't been convinced that Pynchon's pedophilia as it pertained to Bianca
was something else. I'm also not convinced that his Thomas Wolfe-ean
dialect fetish in M&D isn't a complete waste of time. Does it REALLY
enhance the experience of the novel, and why and how? To me, it seemed like
a huge waste of time. There's that feeling again!
_Underworld_, on the other hand, was a cool breeze (Mike, the beer is on
me: I see your check cashed. You go too, boy!), without the pretension that
Pynchon seemed to have picked up. I find that what I find (uh-oh,
circularity) so amazing about M&D is how the fucker ever wrote it. What
kind of twisted genius can produce a narrative so labyrinthine, so
historically rich and SOOO slow? This was not the case with GR, which had
me in tears at its conclusion. As for the ushering into mystery, Borges did
more with a few pages than most writers could do with 800-page novels. I
would have to include M&D into the latter until further notice. I would not
include GR. It is one of the finest novels EVER written, and that's saying
quite a bit.
Mittelwerk, literature is not repression, you wanker. Literary criticism is.
MantaRay
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