Gaddis and Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

Malign:
>It's not prejudice.

If you say so, but that's what it looks like.

>It's a reading of the landscape--one you clearly haven't
>made.

You can't possibly know this.

>To say that Pynchon is--by some great measure--wittier, more skilled,
>more intelligent than Nabokov, Bellow, Roth, Garcia-Marquez, and others--is
>ignorant.

I haven't said any of these things, of course.

Who are you talking to, other than yourself and your straw man?

> It deserves ridicule.

Keep telling yourself that, if it helps you rationalize the way you aproach
this topic.

A less elitist approach, imo, is to respect other people's tastes and
preferences.   Somebody with more refined taste than yourself may very well
ridicule your likes and dislikes -- that's probably why you make such a big
deal about this, come to think of it.  It wouldn't do to be caught enjoying
something that somebody else might consider inferior, would it.