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[Otto]

Rob:
> Personally I think Pynchon is overly harsh on
> himself and that the book is great fun.
>

John:
> But I was surprised when I read the book again a few months ago, having
never really intended to after 4 or 5 years since
> the last perusal. It is, as a wise one just pointed out, great fun.
>

Yes, indeed, and so I see his self-criticism more as some kind of ironic
comment that he maybe had put a little too much into a short "novel"
(quotation marks by Pynchon). But this is what makes it a good text to
exemplify some things.

Otto