McHoul & Wills' chapter Re: SLSL Intro "Almost But Not Quite Me ..."

[Dave Monroe]

Well, having invested myself in this so far ...

--- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I doubt if even M&W's aim was "to convince."  I
> believe the book was put together pretty much as a
> lark. It certainly reads that way.

This I think is not entirely off the mark.  Esp. with
The Post Card, Derrida opened the field to such, I
don't know, occasionalism.  Hence, by the way, of
course, McH & W's postcards to each other.  Some
people can pull it off, some can't, inc. JD hisself
...

> They took note early on of the fact that Pynchon
> criticism had to date been with few exceptions what
> they called "humanistic." (Were they right in this?

Pretty much so ...

> Why not try deconstruction, they said. And did.
> Perhaps it is not very good deconstruction.

It isn't, but that's not been my contention, so ...

> Perhaps deconstruction is no longer the method to
> apply to great writers. 

Now if there's a sentence here waiting to be, er,
deconstructed ...

> Then Hanjo B. decided to go a step further and
> apply not one but three methods simulteously.
> Now that was too much. I'm sure Dave would agree.

Successively vs. simultaneously.  To each Pynchonian
novel its own personal poststructuralism.  But I don't
recall any compliants when I deployed him whilst we
were last reading V., so ...

> Alec McH used to be a p-lister for you who haven't
> been around forever like me.

Were he only here to defend his own work, 'cos I don't
particularly appreciate the demand that I do so ...

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