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on 12/2/03 6:47 AM, Richard Romeo at romeocheeseburger at yahoo.com wrote:

>> rather than presenting the reader with how the
>> world "is", Pynchon
>> is constantly showing how the world is perceived to
>> be, and how the
>> processes of perception can and do actually alter
>> the way the world "is".<<<
> 
> I agree with this. Could one say that much of fiction
> being written today that draws the most attention is
> attempting to present the reader with 'how the world
> is'? Is this what readers want, a confirmation of what
> they feel themselves or an explanation, for
> reassurance?
> i.e., they don't want to be mystified?

I keep reading in the arts section of the paper that biographies and
histories are being bought and read more and more nowadays at the expense of
fiction, so, yes, perhaps that is part of it. But I also think that a lot of
people are uncomfortable with the notion - something which is central to and
constantly demonstrated by a, dare I say it, "postmodernist" writer like
Pynchon - that biographies and histories and so forth are fictional
constructs as much as any novel is.

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