The Man

[Samuel Moyer]

Yeah.... 2500 pages of literary criticism throughout the ages...
"simplifying complicated views, marshaling an individualistic hall of fame."

I imagine they will sell them pretty well though...

Sam

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 1:20 PM
Subject: The Man


> It was like a public confession. In a talk titled "Working for the
> Man," Mr. Williams, a professor of English at the University of
> Missouri, castigated the Norton anthologies and canons in general.
> "Nortons represent the Man," he said. They "are inferior goods and
> failed enterprises, representing received opinion, simplifying
> complicated views, marshaling an individualistic hall of fame,
> usually of great men in a fraternity."
> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/19/arts/19NORT.html
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