Pynchon's "muse" (was ...

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<< I'm not sure that the separation or image of competing muses is 
particularly apt.>>

Apt or not, I regret using the term.  It seemed an easy shorthand to the 
point I was making, but it's a stupid and effete word.

<< I think there is enough in the detail and form of Pynchon's texts to 
consider them as "versions of history" which are offered to the reader, if 
not indeed incorporating meditations on historiography within their scope.>>

Meditations on historiography I might agree with; versions of history, no. 

I fear the next stop in this discussion to be the "history is a fiction" 
argument, which can be fun and all but ...