JS

[jbor]

> While Lineland was IMHO the poorest excuse for a nonbook I've ever
> encountered, the Playboy piece was of a completely different order. Well
> written and interesting. This is not to say it may not be biased and self
> serving at least to some degree.
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Certainly, but entertaining enough, as you say, and it is biased and
self-serving in a very up-front and tongue-in-cheek way, especially
considering the publication context! I'm not so sure that some "serious"
critics aren't just as or more so guilty of bias and self-service at
Pynchon's expense, and in contexts which are far more insidious, when they
purport to uncover finite and unequivocal meanings in the texts which
thereby prove that Pynchon the man is a God-fearing gun-totin' Nazi-hunting
star spangled patriot or whatever. It's the same game however it's played.

best

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>From: Paul Mackin <pmackin at clark.net>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: JS
>Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2000, 4:50 AM
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