the stints approach

[J L]

doug:
>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.

There's a sentence in _V._ chapter 4 to do with modern aircraft as
'weapon-systems' and assigning a new nobility to maintenance crews
(sorry haven't got the text here) which I find horribly unconvincing.
It just shouts "Boeing technical manual" to me.
I do wonder whether further knowledge of P.'s past would have the same
effect on the more mysterious stuff that gets chewed over here.
Ignorance is bliss.

JL
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