Literacy (is Re: Harry Potter)

[David Morris]

>From: KXX4493553 at aol.com
>
>>From: Doug Millison
>>
>>I defer to Pynchon's devastating critique in Vineland, where he depicts 
>>the Tube as a disease that robs us of our history and our dreams, a weapon 
>>and tool in the hands of those forces that co-opted the 60s revolution and 
>>gave us Reagan.
>
>I read Vineland in exactly the same  way as Doug. And what is 
>"simple-minded" about it? Of course it's a political statement. But 
>political statements are always "one-sided" because they force us to make a 
>decision. You can devide the literary Pynchon and the political Pynchon, 
>but the political one is absolutely clear und cannot be misunderstood. I 
>think the people who don't like Vineland don't like the politicial Pynchon 
>in it.
>

Maybe you're both right.  Some of the best artist have been known to go dull 
when they dip into politics too heavily.  But I don't think Pynchon, nor VL 
is so simple-minded.  An "absolutely clear" Pynchon?  God, how dull.

DM
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