pynchon-l-digest V2 #1432

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Doug Millison wrote:

> Perhaps Pynchon's most penetrating insight, as he worked on 
> GR and brought it to fruition, was in understanding the degree to 
> which his literate audience had been infected with the same sickness 
> he chose to give Weissmann/Blicero, such that this monster, whose 
> ultimate goal is to deny the blessings of human life on Earth, could 
> be received as some sort of tragic hero -- a dark vision on Pynchon's 
> part indeed. 


Nerve of the guy taking advantage of poor sick readers not blessed with 
Millisonian thought processes.


			P.