SLSL It's raining Frogs & Mirrors

[David Morris]

> --- 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* [fq's *'s] a parody of intelligibility.... 

Ah, but the "almost" is most important, isn't it?  And why is that word so
important?  Easy.  Is Pynchon ultimately a big con man?, bamboozelor?, with no
"sincere" content?   Or is he himself actively attempting to engage that which
he presents?  Does he ultimately only engage us (and maybe himself) in a
cynical game without a heart?

David Morris

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