SLSL Intro: poorly written?

[tyro tortoise]

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yeah, yeah, yeah, but ...
> ... but, well, context.  1984 or thereabouts.  But I
> don't get why y'all are so down on the "Intro" here.

I gotta think about that RD stuff. It's a good point. 
I'm not down on the Introduction. I'm down wit it
brother. And you are the Hostess cupcakes on the
ceiling. Hmmmmmm, cupcakes.   


> 
> I've pretty much never reread the short stories, not
> in earnest, at any rate, but I've read the "Intro" a
> buncha times, and, well, it's what he writes.  Y'all
> can argue about how well he does it, but I'm rather
> more interested in what he might be getting across
> despite, well, whatever ...

Pynchon writing is loopy:  Consisting of loops.
Offbeat; crazy: “the loopy energy of Harpo Marx”

It's sticky to be the Hostess cupcakes on the ceiling
but it beats being a twinky in the carpet. 

Keep the faith, 

TT





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