SLSL Succession of the Criminally Insane

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: "Steve Maas" <tyronemullet at hotmail.com>
Cc: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 2:38 AM
Subject: Re: SLSL Succession of the Criminally Insane
>
>
> Steve Maas wrote:
> >
> > "(...) that succession of the criminally insane who have enjoyed power
since
> > 1945."
> >
> > How could any thinking person seriously doubt the essential truth of
this
> > observation?
> >
> > Steve Maas
>
> Thomas R. Pynchon doubts the essential truth of this statement after he
> re-issues his Slow Learner stories with the Introduction from which this
> statement is taken.
>
> The proof that Pynchon doubt the essential truth of this statement is VL
> and M&D.
>
> And, the Introduction is confusing, especially on issues like this one
> (race-power-class)  because Pynchon's doubt (his doubt and uncertainty
> about lots of things, even going so far as to doubt that any of his
> earlier fiction is any good, including GR) compounds the fact that he is
> a loopy, flip, and overall poor essayist.
>

You've said this before without giving any reasons for it. Repetition
doesn't make a wrong assertion right.

Where does he say that he doubts GR is a good novel?

> Moreover,  in the fiction prior to VL and M&D, Pathological behavior
> (including the use of the BOMB) is not the exclusive privilege of the
> ruling class in Pynchon's fiction.
>

What has that to do with the above statement? He's talking about the real
political situation after WW-2 in which he sees his reason for writing. Only
in politicians & terrorists pathological behaviour really becomes dangerous
for many people.

Otto

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