Thank Goodness
tyro tortoise
tyrotortoise at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 10 17:47:57 CST 2002
--- Cyrus <CyrusGeo at netscape.net> wrote:
> tyro tortoise wrote:
>
> > If Pynchon is a literary genius why can't he write
> an
> > essay that communicates? While speaking of
> > communication, it seems that Pynchon has forgotten
> > that communicating clearly with others is the
> ultimate
> > goal of composition. The Introduction is poorly
> > written.
>
>
> Forgive me; I cant see any connection between being
> a literary genius
> and writing good essays.
Maybe there is none.
I dont expect a noveslist
> to write good essays.
Some do and some don't. Pynchon doesn't.
And, anyway, I dont expect a novelist to
> write essays the same
> way he does his novels.
Me neither.
That said, I think Pynchon
> chooses to write his
> essays in a more conversational, every-day tone,
> which, of course, might
> seem like bad writing, but in fact isnt.
It's not the voice or the tone of his essays that's
the problem.
A reason
> might be that, in
> writing an essay, all you have to do is convey, as
> you also said, a
> point of view clearly and effectively (which I still
> think he does, with
> a personal twist, of course). In writing a novel,
> you have to do a lot
> more. A good essayist may at best be a great
> philosophical mind, but a
> literary genius is another thing.
>
> Cyrus
>
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