A substantial group reading of V

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000 MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> This doesn't seem or feel to me the sort of eccentric opinion where one 
> dislikes-- but can see what others will like in--a film, book, play, 
> whatever, an opinion one knows will run against the popular position.  
> Rather, I'm surprised such isn't the general consensus of M&D.  That it isn't 
> (at least on this list) and that some seem to find the expression of such an 
> opinion out of bounds, leads me to think, as I do, that the desire for M&D to 
> be great, the worthy shelfmate of GR blinds.  Or the belief that Pynchon is a 
> great writer; therefore, anything he writes is, ipso facto, great, does the 
> same.
> 
> Such is what I mean by hagiography and, with such sentiments do I twist the 
> blunt knife.

For what it's worth this p-lister didn't find anything approaching
eccentricity in the evaluation. Even hagiographers present might have 
felt it more as laser surgery than blunt knife.

		P.