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

[David Morris]

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> >>>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"<<<
> 
> I'll bet the inside of his cheek is sore from some serious tongue friction.

Yes and no:
I think he realizes the pitfalls of his own craft and exposes them for us all
to see in this intro.  Yet he keeps his course.  He adds all theses and other
overlays which WillZant has listed, and which Pynchon masters, as WZ (please
give us a shorter nickmame before I breach neme decorum) has also noted, in GR.

In this intro Pynchon reveals his ambition, and he mocks himself without
abandoning that which he mocks.  Hubris?  Maybe, but comming down from the trap
door of the wooden pony.

David Morris



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