Stay Focused

[David Morris]

>From where I sit, Toby's got it wrong, and Davemarc's right on the money.  
Well said, Davemarc.  But this COULD be the subjecy of a worthy debate, 
hysterics left out the door and actual Pynchon text references being an 
agreed-upon standard.  Probably too much to ask.

DM

>Toby G Levy: I guess what mystifies me the most is how people can quite 
>sincerely believe that Pynchon's perspective is not from the far left side 
>of the political spectrum.  Not only is there an unlimited amount of 
>evidence in the texts themselves, but most if not all of his blurbs are for 
>books by lefties and all of his known friends from college days were 
>lefties.

>Davemarc: When he does commit his words to paper, he often writes a kind of 
>surrealist fiction that enables him to raise many questions and portray 
>complexities--the rampant lunacies--while not quite engaging in polemics.  
>More often than not, I venture, he raises questions without insisting that 
>there are even answers--in his fiction and his non-fiction.


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