SLSL Intro: author's strategy

[pynchonoid]

somebody:
>unfair it is to the reader,
>starting to read, say, SL, with the preconceived
>notion, provided by the author himself, that the
>stories are bad ones. 

Then again, after listening to the author find fault
and discuss flaws, a reader may be even more receptive
to the power and beauty that manages to shine through
these stories despite their shortcomings. Not a bad
strategy for an author  whose audience in 1984
probably knows only V., COL49, or GR, which he went on
to write after woodshedding with these early stories,
which prior to this collection were not nearly as well
known or widely read as the novels -- making them
easily accessible being one of the motivating factors
for the publication of SL in the first place.



-Doug


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