SLSL Intro "Almost But Not Quite Me ..."

[MalignD at aol.com]

Dave Monroe:

<< From Alec McHoul and David Wills, Writing Pynchon: Strategies in Fictional 
Analysis (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1990), Ch. 5, "Almost But Not Quite Me 
...," pp. 131-62 ... >>

[Excerpts follow.]  

I wonder if Dave Monroe would agree that these excerpts are from a 
particularly poor chapter of a consistently poor book.

A particular wonderful sentence--from the opening paragraphs of the chapter 
cited above:

"Tempting as it may be, we ought perhaps resist reading the 'Introduction' as 
the key to the stories which follow it.  And, by way of one last confession, 
it is now necessary to say that we [the joint authors] would find such a 
reading very difficult, not having read those stories at the time of writing 
this!"  

Exclamation point theirs ...