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[Terrance F. Flaherty]

"Derek C. Maus" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
> 
> > Thank you Derek, by why attack me personally. Calling me
> > Bennett is a real insult.
> 
> Like I said in the original, it wasn't meant ot be an attack, it just
> sounded more like Bennett than Kermode, who actually can be fairly lucid
> and compelling when he wants to be. *Anyway*, you can't really be much
> like William Bennett, since he doesn't like Pynchon.
> 
 

I like Pynchon a whole bunch, that's why I participate here,
but I think a balanced approach is best when approaching
Pynchon as well. So when Doug M. asked about Pynchon
scholarship that addresses religion in Pynchon, I suggest
what I have read. I included in those suggestions James
Wood's 'The Broken Estate" (1999). One chapter, "Thomas
Pynchon and the Problem of Allegory" takes up M&D and is not
very kind to Thomas Pynchon. Reading this chapter, I am
convinced that Woods has got it all wrong. He credits
Pynchon with beautiful language, but calls Pynchon's M&D
"poetry written out in prose by mistake." He tears into
Pynchon with deep claws, but he misreads him. Nevertheless,
I suggested Wood's book.  

TF