learning from Pynchon

[jbor]

millison at online-journalist.com wrote:

> Is learning only possible from texts that are didactic, unambiguously
> moralizing, how-to or textbooks, dogmatic tracts, or is it possible that a
> novelist, in a novel, like GR for example, that has none of those qualities
> but which is incredibly rich, complex, highly nuanced, outrageously
> inventive, ambiguous, and sometimes baffling, might introduce a reader to
> new insights both intellectual and emotional, new information, new or
> unfamiliar ways of looking at the world?

Depends how open-minded the reader is I guess.

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