MDDM Ch. 12 Summary & Notes

[jbor]

davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> But much complaining about vague and ultimately
> untenable generalities without any specifics.

Both "vague" and "ultimately untenable", with no corroborating detail for
either negative, and seemingly contradictory, assertion?

> And as
> these have presumably been responses to me, I'm at a
> particular loss as to what such complaint might be
> about.  

I don't believe that any of the three responses was actually intended as a
"complaint", they were merely responses to your admonition that "you gotta
do the research first in order to determine just where and when he's
deployiong just what and how", with your ominous hint that Pynchon is "Doing
Something", as though there is an ultimate coded significance behind the
text and that there is a single, "correct" line of extra-textual research to
be followed. Perhaps you misstated your position?

> Don't like my annotations?  Don't read 'em
> then.  

A little thin-skinned, this, no? One minute you're belly-aching about being
ignored, then the next .... The term "Sheesh" springs to mind.

best