Foreword, the inevitable backlash

[pynchonoid]

>Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:47:39 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>

>You guys are all about the avoidance, aren't you? 
>But's it's all fallen into the usual pattern so far,
>so ... so it's Pynchon, deal with it ...

I've tried to do my part, Dave -- an uphill struggle
in the face of those entrenched voices that seem
determined to dismiss the Foreward without even
reading it!

Then there's the not-invented-here syndrome -- I've
watched a couple of you folks pick up this observation
and offer it as your own, since I posted it here the
other day:

Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 08:58:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Foreword "An Unwarrantedly Chirpy
Analysis"

- --- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:[...]
> But
> the questions I'm most immediately interested in
> are,
> why Orwell?  Why Pynchon?  How did this "Foreword"
> come about?  Picturing a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup
> moment here.  Chocolate bar, meet peanut butter jar.
> 

I'm thinking about the Sloth essay that Pynchon
published (in the NY Times), in '93, well in advance
of M&D, but which covered several core issues that we
find more fully developed and articulated -- in
fictional form -- in M&D.  I suspect that this
Foreward provides a glimpse at some of the concerns
we'll find in Pynchon's next novel.  

<http://www.libyrinth.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_sloth.html>






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