Problems of Paranoia in thos Hollander Essays.1 of 50

[Eric Rosenbloom]

I don't know Mr Hollander but I think he is not reading Pynchon's
secrecy very well. It can be put into context. Paranoia was the
post-modern mode, as creative torment was the modern. Both of them are
means of creating books as analogs of dream (Three quarks for Muster
Mark!). As dreams have no context outside of the dreamer, these books
have meaning only in a melded composite of reader and writer. Your
Modern approached that interface as a writer; your Potsmodern came as
reader. Joyce led a public life, and Pynchon leads a private one as
testament to letting readers be the writers. As paranoid as Pynchon may
in fact be, he has sublimated it as an analog of reading and, opposing
The Firm, he is also true to opposing the fetishizing of writers. He
will not serve.
U.S.W.

Yours,
Eric R



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