SLSL Racial Differences

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bahia Quasimodo" <bahiaquasimodo at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: SLSL Racial Differences
>
> --- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> >
> > But again, my personal judgement of the
> > "Introduction" is generally
> > positive. I've read it far more often (like his
> > other non-fiction pieces
> > too) than any of the five following stories.
>
> That's interesting. I find the Introduction confusing
> and jumbled. I find most of Pynchon's essays are
> likewise confusing and jumbled. The Intro to BDSL is
> the exception.

What about the Luddites-essay? What's confusing about it?

>That being said, I don't think this
> Introduction makes much sense unless you are at least
> as familiar with the stories as the Introduction.
> Well, I guess that's why we're doing this SLSL. And I
> realize that we need to schedule the thing and
> organize it in some way, but I'm finding it kinda hard
> not to bring the stories into this current discussion.

I agree.

> I guess I'm as much to blame as anyone else because I
> sort of got fixated on a few badly written sentences.
> I focused on these to support my opinion that the
> Intro is poorly written and because I felt that some
> of these sentences were sure to be the fulcrum upon
> which arguments would be leveraged later on and so we
> had best get them out of the basement and into the
> yard for a good looking over. Well, it turns out that
> lots of readers were attracted to these sentences as
> well and for various reasons, though we all seem to
> agree that they are a ambiguous. In any event, I
> wonder if we scheduled this thing right. I mean, with
> superman x-ray vision looking back we could have given
> the Introduction a week and then Dave or someone else
> could have team-hosted the stories as they are taken
> up in the Introduction. It's just kinda difficult not
> to post something from the stories since most of the
> Introduction deals with them and yet the schedule
> prevents this.
>

I think the more general topics can/should be discussed without looking at
the stories too closely. I know, all this returns when we're discussing the
stories, looking at the flaws and what's good.

> All water into the Holland Tunnel (happy birthday
> Holland tunnel) as they say, but I think the schedule
> is one of the reason we are stuck on a few sentences
> here and I don't think that we should be criticized
> for talking about these issues now.
>

Maybe you're right.

Otto

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