Is it OK to be a Luddite?

[Courtney Givens]

>From: "Otto"
>
>He doesn't drop anything. He stays on topic from the first to the last
>sentence.

Otto Darling,  If P were a student in my
class I would introduce him to an outline. He's very
funny, witty, challanging, brilliant even, but he does not stay on topic.  
I'm laughing as I type this. No darling, Malign
is right to complain. He is, however, as Charles Clerc
says in Mason & Dixon & Pynchon, "a world-class researcher" (Cler.39).




>
> > I have no idea who he imagines these sci/fi geniuses to be, but a list 
>of
> > the
> > "paralyzed" mainstream writers working in the fifties would without
> > exhaustion include: Faulkner, Thomas Mann, Nabokov, Celine, Beckett,
> > Flannery
> > O'Conner, James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, John Updike, Terry Southern, 
>Ralph
> > Ellison, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Flann
> > O'Brien.
> >
>
>This is your list -- none of those names can be found in the essay.
>Beckett, Nabokov and Mailer are no mainstream -- for me they could be the
>exceptions Pynchon is speaking about.


Well let us hope that Faulkner is also on that exceptions list.

Maybe you should read a little SF, for
>example the recently mentioned Frank Herbert or the Strugatzkis, to get the
>idea. I could name several great SF-authors I consider far more important
>than Th. Mann.

hmmmmmm, nothing against sci-fiers, but Mann better be
on that list too. Don't you think?
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