Is M&D as good as GR???

[Doug Millison]

At 6:15 PM 9/12/97, David L. Pelovitz, Ph.D. wrote:
>To be honest, I like soy milk.

By the way billion or so people in China also like soy milk and can't stand
the taste of cow's milk -- not difficult to understand, by the way, since
it is made for calves.

Which is only to underscore the point that people like what they learn to
like, and resist anything new. But as I used to say to my five-year-old --
and would repeat to those on the list who seem to be having trouble with
M&D -- you won't know if you don't like it if you don't try it (he now
eats, and enjoys, a broader range of foods of any 10-year-old I know) and
in this case "trying it" means slowing down and paying attention to what
Pynchon is actually doing in *this* novel, instead of standing stuck in the
headlight dazzle of Gravity's Rainbow. It's worth the effort -- M&D reaches
back into each of P's previous works, builds on them, digs deeper and
spirals even higher.


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