Forget Conspiracy

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, while I'm at it, a.greed as well ...

--- John Bailey <johnbonbailey at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Richard Romeo <romeocheeseburger at yahoo.com>
> >Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:04:57 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >Vineland and M&D seem to shrug off the dark
> >paranoia of the earlier works.
> 
> ... although I don't totally agree with it, I think 
> this guy has at least thought out his argument (I
> disagree with him when he starts to set up an
> Enlightenment/Western/Rationalist system vs. a 
> Non-Rational/Eastern/Intuitive alternative, which is
> probably too much of a simplification of P's
> writings and I don't think that the novels set up
> such a neat binary opposition).

... or at least one would hope.  "Desperately"?  Let
me know.  My intuition here, however, is that whatever
core disagreements over reading Pynchon Rob and I have
involve not so much what might be being said, but how
it's being equivocated.  But, yeah, that McClure
essay, for whatever disagreements I might have with
it, is a conventionally "strong" piece.  And, barring
the arrival of any recommended reading on the
"Introduction"--oh, wait, I do have another note on
that, though I might not have the materials handy
...--hope to get to Mattessich and Medoro shortly as
well.  Medoro, in particular, makes for some
holiday-appropriate reading ...

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