Gaddis and Pynchon

[MalignD at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/20/02 4:14:38 PM, millison at online-journalist.com writes:

<< Hogwash - it's the sign of somebody who doesn't agree with your particular
prejudices and preferences. No objective standard exists for judging
artistic worth, and I have no reason to accept you as final arbiter of
literary taste. >>

It's not prejudice.  It's a reading of the landscape--one you clearly haven't 
made.  To say that Pynchon is--by some great measure--wittier, more skilled, 
more intelligent than Nabokov, Bellow, Roth, Garcia-Marquez, and others--is 
ignorant.  Simply ignorant.  It's not a position that needs be given any 
respect.  It deserves ridicule.