re Re: re Re: NP "racist" Tolkien?

[jbor]

on 29/12/02 3:20 AM, pynchonoid at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> That's difficult if not impossible to evaluate without
> actually reading Shapiro.  Imagine, just for a moment,
> the brief press release that might summarize Gravity's
> Rainbow and present its major themes, presented and
> received without the benefit of Pynchon's past work
> and reputation.

I see. So Shapiro's writing a novel, is he? His thesis is presented in his
press release, and it's pretty easy to evaluate. I'd say that there isn't a
"work" forthcoming.

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