Pynchon and the current situation

[Paul Mackin]

I've appreciated Terrance as a p-list personality through the last couple
years. This doesn't depend on getting the point of everything he says. Not
infrequently a post will seem quite perceptive (surmised from my own
knowledge of the subject) while other times I won't have a clue. Anyway,
don't change a thing and stay as sweet as you are.

          Love,   P.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: Pynchon and the current situation


> A number of people have written OFFLIST. They have argued that my
> position is at odds with the texts of TRP and the critical studies of
> those texts. I'm not going to reply to OFFLIST posts.  I've written
> hundreds posts on War in Pynchon's novels. I could go into the archives
> and cut and paste. If I did, I would be able to demonstrate that the
> position I have taken here is supportable, by the TRP texts, by my
> reading of those texts, by the critical studies, by the letters and
> essays Thomas Pynchon has published or allowed to be published, by the
> extensive citations I have added to the archives from the text Pynchon
> is known to have read and used to write his books, etc.
>