Sloth and Pynchon

[Otto]

Have you read Gaddis? Simple question, simple answer.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Sloth and Pynchon


> Malign has his/her  own hagiographic tendencies, I see.  We all have our
> favored hobby-horses, don't we.
>
> ><< Pale Fire is a fine, fun book, too. >>
> Malign:
> >Pale Fire is far more than that.
>
>
> Otto,
> You do an excellent job with English, infinitely better than I could in
> German (which I don't speak or read).  My objection is when your
> misunderstanding of a nuance here or there sends you off on a Quixotic
> crusade to slander me with accusations of lying and dishonesty, when the
> simple fact is that you haven't clearly understood the English expressions
> in play -- as in the "freeloading" and "hand-out" example yesterday. I
> suggest that before you start slinging accusations at somebody based on
> diction, make sure you know what you're talking about first.
>
> Otherwise, I continue to be amazed at how well you seem to understand the
> literary theory you seem to have read in English, or perhaps in German
with
> help from translations -- and your grasp of Pynchon's English, whose
> writing is complex and demanding; at any rate, good job.

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