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In a message dated 2/7/2003 4:19:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
malignd at yahoo.com writes:


> That's one way of putting it.  Another is that what
> he's saying is idiotic.  If you heard the same
> statement out of the mouth of a bus driver--Every
> President and everyone else that has wielded power
> since the second world war has been criminally
> insane!--would you consider that the fellow was
> speaking in paradigmatic terms?  (Not that all bus
> drivers are idiots ...)
> 
> 

I think he's being purposely idiotic, or at least
challenging the usual sheep to wake up and
acknowledge that the introductiion is a mockery
of his critics. But it's very slick. If you can't see
the highly imaginative aspects of these early works-
which are all finely polished and perfected in V. and
GR- you will not appreciate that the intro is a hoot.

Pynchon is far from idiotic. If it's all in my imagination,
so be it. Call it an idiot's delight. My pleasure will be
none-the-worse for it.

repectfully
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