beatin them bozos...2...

[MalignD at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/11/02 7:26:08 PM, calbert at hslboxmaster.com writes:

<< ... I come down wondering why Pynchon would break a pattern established 
and maintained before and after the piece in question. "On Writing" and "On 
Writers" seem pretty popular forms with writers of all ranks; Oakley Hall, 
Jonathan Lethem are

but two disparate examples of the herd. But this is the extent of it from a 
writer whose audience must be nearly as large, but whose relative importance 
differs by at least an order of magnitude? >>

I don't follow your logic here.  I can say nothing useful about the "why," 
but the fact is he did break a pattern, he did write an Intro.  Why does 
that, in and of itself (if I'm following correctly what you're saying) 
suggest the likelihood of an ironic or obscurant point of view or intent?  
(Nor do I see, as I said before , how that would do anything toward 
protecting his privacy.)