The irony of Pynchon

[Terrance]

> Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> Pynchon may not be an ironist but there is an irony in
> Pynchon consisting of the fact that, though he writes like
> an angel, the novels,  filled to the brim with meanings to
> ponder, don't relate to specific lives sufficiently to
> make them truly satisfying in a way we expect from
> novels. At least such is my reaction. There are no doubt
> good postmoderist reasons for this but it is a bitter
> twist of fate none the less.
> 
>                     P.


Yeah, well this is what is being said by the theoretical
folk too, not just readers
that read a lot of fiction, but I disagree, I don't agree
that we have been conditioned or otherwise predisposed to
expect this from all pre--postmodernist novels. Film may not
explain this, modern
fragmentation/alianation/experimentation may not, but
Modernist poetry will provide some stimulation of the
response to the world by/of poetry. So back to the draft
now...but remember Fausto's prayer (not unlike Yeat's prayer
for his daughter) that Paola may be ONE Paola at peace and
not at pieces.