GR 'Streets'

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>>Your reading can be supported by the text.
> 
> All the other views I'm reading here can't be.<<<
> 
> All of the other views can be supported by the imagination.

I would say it's a lack of imagination. 

You would think that the Saintly Rats in V. would
have discouraged such readings, but it seems that critics of the
generation that dominates the Pynchon Industry can not accept that there
are
Saintly Rats in V. So why do they find pleasure in reading it? Such
critics can not distinguish fact from fiction, and belong to the same
category as the people who send money to TV stations to help their TV
heroes out of a financial jam. Such literal minded readers should be
pitied, for they are not literal at all, but suffer from imaginative
illiteracy.