Locke

[David Morris]

Locke's got (had?) a stick up his butt not unlike those who denied him his 
oppurtunity to reject the Pulitzer.  No sense of humor / Too self-important. 
  GR is undoubtedly P's most humorous novel.  Some people just can't take a 
joke.

Me thinks he does project too much!

David Morris

>From: Terrance What Locke actually wrote:
>
>This is a judgment about its form, but let me go a step further. One feels 
>in the end that Pynchon's imagination is so taken with the imagery of Nazi 
>death, so close to Blicero, that he is driven to make the plot larger and 
>larger, to add more and more characters, to invent increasingly zany comic 
>routines and digressions as a frantic defense against the fear and love of 
>death--the odor of the crematorium, burnt cordite, bombed out minds and 
>bodies, ruins. This all gets out of his control. Pynchon's sensibility and 
>achievement here are limited by the very paranoid traits that he is 
>ostensibly criticizing. The sentimental and comic characters and their 
>mindless pleasures do not have the intended force to counterpoint the theme 
>of death; the druggy, spaced-out comedy becomes too juvenile and 
>self-indulgent to function as a real alternative.
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