SLSL: Thank Goodness

[Toby G Levy]

Thank Goodness the works of Pynchon are nothing like what he describes as
"a book I still believe is one of the great American novels, On the Road
by Jack Kerouac."

OTR was to me one of the most relentlessly monotonous and shallow books
that  have ever been included under the literature tent.  Truly, Gertrude
Stein's criticism of Ernest Hemingway as a "typist" rather than a writer
applies even better to Kerouac than to Papa himself.

This one line alone from the SL Intro is enough to convince me that his
tongue was planted firmly in his cheek throughout the introduction.

Toby

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