SLSL Intro (A Couple-Three Bonzos

[barbara100 at jps.net]

I'm reading him at face value in the Introduction.  It never occurred to me
he'd be disingenuous.  I think you all are paranoid.  Too many years on the
P-List, no doubt.  Or maybe I'm being naive.  I don't know. But my gut
reaction--my first read--tells me he's completely sincere.  I know the
embarrassment in reading 20-year old checks.  I know the unpoliticized past.
I remember the puerile attitudes.  I identify with so many of the feelings
he had about himself, I'm reluctant to think he's making it up.  Whatever
voice he takes on, I always think of him as being sincere.


----- Original Message -----
From: "pynchonoid" <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
To: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: SLSL Intro (A Couple-Three Bonzos


> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > Do those who are, for various reasons, plumping for
> > P's disingenuousness
> > contend that the positive remarks about 'TSI' aren't
> > sincere?
>
> Most of that is flamebait, unworthy of response.
>
> Looks like we -- that "we" is inclusive of everybody
> who's participated in this thread, not trying to
> divide us into two warring factions -- have
> demonstrated, picking out one nuance then another,
> finding one then another way to read this or that,
> that there's very little that's "straightforward" (I
> think that's what somebody was trying to assert
> earlier) about this Intro. Pynchon confounds
> expectations at every turn, not only here in our
> little discussion group, but among his readers at the
> time SL was published.
>
> -Doug
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