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on 7/8/02 10:34 AM, Doug Millison at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> I'm satisfied that Pynchon is several steps ahead of
> his readers.

Isn't this just a fancy way of saying that, in your opinion, Pynchon writes
deliberately unintelligible fiction, or more accurately, an admission that
you don't understand his work?

I disagree strongly with any method of interpretation which relies on the
conceit that Pynchon writes with the intention of not being understood by
his readers.

best

Conceit n. as a literary term this word has come to denote a fairly
elaborate figurative device of a fanciful kind which often includes
metaphor, simile, hyperbole or oxymoron and which is intended to surprise
and delight by its wit and ingenuity