Chasing ... Cutting

[Stacy Borah]

IMO, Pynchon's intentions in writing GR don't matter at all UNLESS he wants 
to tell us why he wrote it.  Then, his reading of the novel becomes the only 
true reading.  Because those are his words and his thoughts and his 
meanings, any other reading would be false and only true to the reader 
making it.  Therefore, any discussion on Pynchon's intentions will only 
muddle any serious discussion of his great novel.  And that's the way it is 
on this day, Thursday, August 31. . .

This is Paul Harvey. . .

GOOD DAY!

Stacy



>From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
>To: MalignD at aol.com
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Chasing ... Cutting
>Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:24:50 -0500
>
>Without taking quite as strong a line on authorial intention (I'd certainly 
>take
>any forthcoming statements into consideration, if not necessarily at face 
>value,
>and I've certainly taken into consideration the nonfiction and other extant
>statements) or the inverse role of the reader (one would have to take into
>consideration the specified reader, and I obviously hold Doug in rather 
>more
>esteem that M. MalignD here), and without condoning the strong (and, below,
>uncited) language, I've obviously posted similar sentiments here before, so 
>...
>
>MalignD at aol.com wrote:
>
> >  I find it not believable, whatever his original intentions, that 
>Pynchon
> > might have missed the Crystal Palace/Kristallnacht correspondence.  And 
>other
> > correspondences
>
> > And even if Pynchon did miss the correspondence, no matter.  Separate 
>from
> > what Pynchon himself intended, if the opening passage evokes the 
>Holocaust for
> > even one reader [...] then it evokes the Holocaust.  It is a question of
> > poetics; the words, written, are free to the interpreting reader.
>
> > Pynchon's intentions are irrelevant to the reader.  Pynchon's intentions 
>don't
> > lie between the covers of his novels.  They need not and they do not 
>trouble
> > or persuade me and they need not any other reader.
>

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