Identifying the Problem.2

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:

 Not so sure that I've argued that those Pynchonian texts
generate
> responses in any unique way, though I can easily see
> arguing that they are likely to. Seems, indeed, a common
> argument here, elsewhere. They certainly seem more likely
> to elicit, provoke certain responses in ways that other
> texts do not. As is true of any given text, of any given
> oeuvre, however you want to inscribe the boundaries here.


Sure, the phone book, the milk bottle, but my point was that
you have argued both HOW and WHY.  

But once you begin attributing these open responses to the
text (putting aside questions about authorial intent for the
moment),  to "those Pynchonian texts," what you are arguing
is how and why those "Pynchonian texts" generate these
various open and complex and intense readings.