pynchon-l-digest V2 #1557

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Sat Dec 16 10:39:36 CST 2000


Why would this demonstrate any special research on Pynchon's part? 
One shortcoming of the literary critical approach that ignores the 
author is that you run the risk of overlooking obvious facts such as 
Pynchon's stint in the U.S. Navy prior to writing this novel.

rj:
>The acronyms certainly provide a wartime flavour to the section describing
>Schoenmaker's early career, the second one shows that Pynchon had certainly
>researched his setting (if the description of Esther's rhinoplasty wasn't
>evidence enough of this!)
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