answering otto

[Doug Millison]

At 8:05 AM +0200 8/9/02, Otto wrote:


>Simply untrue -- Robert has never


Nice of you to speak for  jbor.  Time to circle the wagons, I guess, for
him to hide behind your skirts.


>I cannot imagine
>that he wants his novels to be read & understood in a 19th Century
>pre-modernist style or the Bible.


Good point, and I expect you're right, but I've never made this argument here.



>Once you were praising Pynchon Notes, now you are critisizing it.


Hogwash and, as you say, below your niveau. I'm a contributor to PN.  I
criticize arrogant critics who think their readings have more value than
other's readings, and who use those value judgements to close off
discussion of certain topics here on Pynchon-L.



>I doubt that.


Doubt away.  I doubt that you have the insight into my thinking you
arrogate unto yourself.



>Didn't you write yesterday that P's works are helpful to
>"search for and find God and other expressions of the non-material realities
>of the universe"?


No, I believe that's your distortion of something I may have written -- a
nasty habit you seem to be picking up from jbor. Play in the mud and you're
bound to get some of it on you.


>for years now on this
>list in order to make a writer promoting Christian values of him


Wrong again, my friend.  I've argued, for some time now, that Pynchon takes
Christian religion and spirituality seriously in his fiction -- easily
demonstrated. I've also argued that the positive values -- love, community,
hope -- that lie at the heart of all major faith traditions can be found at
the few, positive moments that shine in the darkness of the world in
Pynchon's texts -- debatable, perhaps, but hardly an earthshaking notion.
Again, you're distorting what I have written, perhaps your entrenched
prejudice against religion makes it different for you to understand the
nuance.