SLSL "TSR" "what I dislike about my writing "

[pynchonoid]

So sez Mr. Pynchon in the SL Intro, about "TSR":

"Most of what I dislike about my writing is present
here in embroyo, as well as in more advanced forms. I
failed to recognize, just for openers, that the main
character's problem was real and interesting enough to
generate a story on its own. Apparently I felt I had
to put on a whole extra overlay of rain images and
references to "The Waste Land" and _A Farewell to
Arms."  I was operating on the motto "Make it
literary," a piece of bad advice I made up all by
myself and then took" (4)

If I read this passage correctly, that "what I dislike
about my writing" would seem to cover all of what he's
written, not just this story, all the way up to 1984
-- the stories, V., COL49, GR, his works in progress
at the time he writes the Intro.

If he dislikes the practice of adding to his works "a
whole extra overlay" of images and references from
other works of art, I wonder why he continues to do
this as a writer, because this characterizes all of
his writing that's been published to date. 
 

-Doug



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