GRGR Slothrop & Sloth

[Doug Millison]

You're maintaining that TRP is putting forth ideas he doesn't believe in,
when he writes these NY Times essays and introductions to books?  That's
absurd. Your "necessarily" below represents the weakness of your argument.
-Doug

At 6:08 PM +1100 6/19/99, rj wrote:
[snip]
>An occasional piece such as it is, written for a quasi-highbrow arts
>supplement -- the activity of reading which would seem to qualify for
>the very definition of sloth Pynchon deplores/valorises in the text of
>the article -- is hardly a deathbed confession, nor even necessarily a
>statement of personal opinion.

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