P's intentions? WAS Re: Walk this way

[Otto]

>
> I don't pretned to know  P's intentions.  But I don't think any critic can
> "get ahead" of him -- he wrote the book, his critics come later, none of
> them have the insight into the text that Pynchon had, and none of them
ever
> will.  That's not to say that the critics don't have interesting things to
> say, because sometimes they do.  But I don't think they'll get to the
> bottom of what P wrote, and I don't think they'll ever get anything like a
> "comprehensive" understanding of his texts.  Do you disagree?
>

1. It's been you who has said that P. is far ahead of any reader/critic,
nobody has asserted that it could be vice versa.

2. The idea of a "bottom" or "comprehensive understanding" of a literary
text is something that is rejected by postmodernism as a tool to study
cultural artefacts.

Otto

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