re Re: SLSL Intro: What Pynchon or his editor should have done

[pynchonoid]

 Keith:
>My 14 year old son would love Millison's argument
>that quality of writing is purely subjective. 

As do many writers of English that is considered, for
one reason or another, non-standard and therefore
defective by the arbiters of good taste or grammar
police.  The wonderful novels of Amos Tutuola come to
mind, written in a kind of English not well received
by some readers at the time they were written. The
debate about ebonics centers on a similar issue.
Judgements about the "quality" of anything are 
subjective.  

Keith:
>It is poorly written because
>it is impossible to figure out what refers to what
>within the internal logic
>of the sentence.

Impossible for some readers, apparently, but not for
others. A judgement of "poorly written" remains
subjective in this case. 

It's entirely in keeping with customary and usual
P-list practice, that people here won't agree on the
meaning of a particular paragraph, sentence, phrase.  

-Doug

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