GRGR Re: Prosthetic Paradise (was Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #1012

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

rj wrote:
> 
> As davemarc also noted, Pynchon depicts cultural and attitudinal shifts
> and other social and historical phenomena as faits accomplis. His
> fiction neither "indicts" nor sermonises ("insists"): it represents. The
> reader is allowed to apprehend each issue or situation for her or
> himself, usually through the appropriation of a range of differing
> viewpoints within the narrative.
> 
> best
> 
> millison wrote:
> > I don't think you have to dig very deep etc


OK, but this reader-orientated approach, very popular
today,  is only one approach. And while those that advocate
this approach are quick to dismiss other approaches that
claim privilege, the reader-orientated approach refuses to
acknowledge that it too claims privilege, right?  

I will respond to your longer post, a very good post, and I
think we can find some common ground there.