SLSL It's raining Frogs & Mirrors

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 10 13:55:19 CST 2002


"'I saw something nasty in the woodshed.'"
    --Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (1932)

http://www.catharton.com/stellagibbons/worksfarm.html

--- William Zantzinger <williamzantzinger at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> 
> Pynchon's reader has every right to feel conned,
> bullied, betrayed. Indeed, these responses are the
> essence of the aesthetic effect of Gravity's
> Rainbow. The reader has been invited to undertake
> the kinds of pattern-making and pattern-interpreting
> operations which, in the Modernist texts with which
> we have all become familiar, would produce
> intelligible meaning; here, they produce almost a
> parody of intelligibility.... 

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