NP Re: article: Leni Riefenstahl: Ethics of an Auteur

[Doug Millison]

At 6:22 AM +0200 8/10/02, Otto wrote
>I think his novels are more about self-organizing systems


P's novels are "about" a lot of things.  I imagine you focus on the things
of most interest to yourself, that seems to be the case with most Pynchon
readers.



>"Summary of Paradigms


Interesting stuff.  Please say more, since you seem to know so much about it.



>"Stendhal: "God's only excuse is that He doesn't exist.""
>(quoted by John Barth, "How To Make a Universe" at "The Friday Book", NY
>1984, p. 18)


How could Stendhal know this with certainty?

P.S.  I think you misunderstood my comment about your English abilities.
First, it's not possible for anyone to discriminate against anybody else in
this forum -- you have the same access as anybody else.  I do think, from
time to time, you may miss a nuance in English that leads to some
misunderstanding, but if I'm wrong about that, I apologize.  Maybe your
German-speaking P-list comrades can provide some insight into this.