Gaddis and Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

 s~Z :
>Every opinion we have says more about us than anything else. I suppose you
>are implying that your opinions are somehow more purely objective.

No, your supposition is inaccurate (perhaps as a result of an irritating
suppository?  bad joke).   Of course my statement applies to me.  Do you
think Malign's opinions are "purely objective"?  Your own? Jbor's?   Based
on what you've had to say on Pynchon-L, I doubt it, but please set me
straight if I'm wrong.


>So the reason some don't like M&D is because we are less mature and
>adventurous than you?


I haven't said that at all.  (You wouldn't be trying to stir up a flame
war, would you?)


As readers we grow and change, imo, and sometimes our favored authors don't
manage to keep up, or, more accurately perhaps, we move beyond (no value
judgement intended) the place we were when we first enjoyed those authors.
"Less mature" and "less adventurous" sound like value judgements, and I'm
not making value judgements in this respect, not at all.

Every reader's response to a work of literature is valid, imo,  and none
are worth more than the rest.  Some may meet my expectations or needs
better than others, but that says as much if not more about me than it does
about the other reader's (critic's, theorist's, professor's, etc.) opinion.