SLSL Intro: What Pynchon or his editor should have done WAS Re: SLSL Racial Differences

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: <MalignD at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: SLSL Intro: What Pynchon or his editor should have done WAS Re:
SLSL Racial Differences
>
> What this thread demonstrates is that the sentence in question is poorly
> written; one need not assume.
>

That's been David's argument yesterday:
> > The fact that you all have spent so much time
> < trying to figure out, inconclusively, what this statement
> > was intended by its author to mean is proof that this introduction
> > was poorly written.
>

I could as well argue the contrary, that the fact that it takes some time to
make sense of it speaks for its quality. In any case it's no good argument,
neither this nor that way. There may be good parts and not so good ones in
the text, this isn't the worst, but a very interesting statement.

Otto

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