Why Pynchon is the greatest

[Paul Mackin]

Malignd wrote:

><<"the crimes behind the world, the thousand bloody
>arroyos in the hinterlands of time that stretched
>somberly inland from the honky-tonk coast of Now.">>
>
>If I'm following this-- 
>
>The thousand bloody arroyos are on the coast?  The
>arroyos are both bloody and somber?  The crime are
>"behind" the world, in the hinterlands, despite there
>being thousands of them and despite their stretching
>inland, presumably out of the hinterlands, out from
>behind the world?  The hinterlands are also a
>honky-tonk?  The hinterlands are on the coast?
>
>Help me somebody.
>  
>
The pyncher's long suit was never parcibility but his prose can oft 
times stimulate the imagination. This may not be one of those times but 
recall another passage about WHAT DOES THE WAR WANT.  Makes one shudder. 
In a good way.