Happy Birthday, T.S. Eliot!

[jbor]

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>From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>

> "forces or permits," well, which one?  Kinda sorta different ...
> inflections there, dontcha think?

I think that Pynchon gives the reader at least that much room to move.
Probably more.

> but, well, is difficult to see a
> "moral" or "ethics" to Robbe-Grillet (though it has been suggested that
> there's a certain politics to his [texts'] apoliticism).  Pynchon['s
> texts], on the other hand ... well, again, those "decisions," "meta-" or
> otherwise, "force[d]" and/or "permit[ted]," well, they would rather
> depend on what is "represent[ed]," "simply" or (as is more likely here)
> otherwise, wouln't they?

Same with Robbe-Grillet's? With *any* text? Isn't that part of the point?