SLSL Racial Differences

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 12 16:09:25 CST 2002


--- calbert at hslboxmaster.com wrote:
> D
> > 1.  Pynchon is a poor essayist.
> > 2.  Pynchon is being purposefully misleading/glib/whatever...
> > 3.  We're all dumb-as-dirt.
> 
> Do you allow for any grey area of overlap twixt 2 & 3?

When he criticizes his own writing, condemning as bad practice exactly what
he's known best for, I say it's being glib.  When he's trying to make a
political point, but is nearly impossible to follow, I say it's sloppy writing.
 So I'd say it's more an overlap between 1 & 2, not 3.

David Morris

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos
http://launch.yahoo.com/u2



More information about the Pynchon-l mailing list