SLSL Racial Differences

[John Bailey]

>From: David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com>
>Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:51:16 -0800 (PST)
>
>Let's recap the current conclusions:
>
>1.  Pynchon is a poor essayist.
>2.  Pynchon is being purposefully misleading/glib/whatever...
>3.  We're all dumb-as-dirt.
>
>Any others?

Keep mindful of the possibility that the vague and confusing sections of the 
Intro are purposefully, misleadingly so: Pynchon wants the reader to think 
he's a bad writer. And we're dumb as dirt for not getting that.

Perhaps he submitted the piece for publication scrawled on the back of a 
bookshop receipt in a shaky hand from being written while on the subway and 
running late for his appointment with an editor who demands an intro, 
hopping along the street muttering "It's OK, Tom, they'll print anything you 
write, don't worry".



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