GRGR(19): Notes pp. 421-433

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
> 
> Jeremy schrieb:
> 
> > I'm still interested in thinking of the similarities between a sadist
> > and an author. "To invent complications" is (part of) TRP's job.
> 
>   what's the difference between a dentist and a sadist? the journals are newer.
> 
>    (- from "seinfeld")                                   kfl

I don't think the case can be made that the author of GR is
somehow a sadist. Pynchon in fact celebrates fiction as a
human necessity and he demonstrates that the metaphorical
characteristics of language are vital to human existence.