(Fwd) Re: SLSL Intro "A Couple-Three Bonzos"

[Tim Strzechowski]

Good point.  Perhaps part of the fun of the Intro is watching Pynchon note
his errors, all the while aware of how some of these errors "make" his
writing what it is. I especially like his assessment of "Entropy" and how,
according to him, he essentially sought to avoid a a story about "a number
of unpleasant people failing to resolve difficulties in their lives, and who
needs that?" (12).  Yet, in some ways, isn't that what each of  his books
gives us?  And don't we embrace these schlemihls regardless?

Tim


From: "Scott Badger" <lupine at ncia.net>

> I wonder if his being sincere is the joke - hidden in plain sight, so to
> speak. I agree with MalignD that there seems little point to the trouble
of
> "crafting" the Intro as some sort of mask, feint, or coded message. Yet,
> it's curious that many of the flaws and weaknesses that Pynchon "admits
to",
> overlays and embedded references, tendrils, building a story, and
> characters, off a set of data-points, word games....well, he seems not to
> have "learned".
>