SLSL Intro: poorly written? WAS Re: Thank Goodness

[pynchonoid]

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:xception. 
> I disagree, I was very much impressed by the
> "Luddite"-, the "Watts"-essay,
> "Nearer, My Couch, to Thee" and the "Introduction"
> to "Slow Learner" as well
> as by the "Farina"- and the "Stone Junction" -
> intro. All these texts are
> helpful to understand his novels.


I agree with Otto here. Pynchon writes in the SL Intro
what he wants to write, he has a literary agent and
editors who will give him feedback, I have to assume
that Pynchon is very much in control of what he
chooses to publish in the SL Intro. In this and his
other non-fiction essays, Pynchon deals with issues
and concerns that he addresses in his fiction, the
non-fiction and fiction together make up a seamless
web of work that calls forth many different kinds of
responses from readers -- that's a reflection of their
richness, imo, not of their inability to communicate. 

-Doug



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