Pynchon's intro to Been Down So Long

Fri Oct 4 20:02:32 CDT 2002

on 10/4/02 5:10 PM, Paul Nightingale at Paulngale at btopenworld.com wrote:

I agree that the intro to Been Down So Long should be linked to that for
Slow Learner; in each P reinvents himself retrospectively yet does so
without insisting on the benefit of hindsight. So I have to disagree - he
doesn't "[sentimentalise] his own earlier years". If anything, his attitude
here to the past (as something to be written) is consistent with M&D: P is
just as much an unreliable narrator as Wicks Cherrycoke. And he doesn't
dwell on his actual relationship with Farina: he has very little to say
about their time together. However, they are linked together, in many ways
as opposites rather than soul twins.

More Pynchon on Farina can be found in David Hajdu's  Positively Fourth
Street. 

Joe 
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