pynchon-l-digest V2 #1681

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<<GR is fiction and, given the extent to which it succeeds as such, one can, 
I think, safely assume P's goals in writing it were primarily esthetic, not 
historical or pedagogic.>

<<How could we know this for sure? Still, it's nice to see that other 
P-listers like to speculate on P's intentions, and that we seem to have 
gotten past automatically castigating somebody for expressing same here on 
the list.>>> 

I may not have been sufficiently clear, but I'm not speculating on P's 
intentions.  I'm offering up as an axiom (which you need not accept) that one 
can't properly serve two muses, let alone three.  Thus, the corollary:  GR's 
success as art precludes its being written for other purposes.