SLSL Pynch's Last Tape
The Great Quail
quail at libyrinth.com
Fri Jan 10 09:02:45 CST 2003
Jbor writes,
> But the 'Intro' also makes it clear that by 1984, at the very latest, he no
> longer endorsed those attitudes
And yet, "Mason & Dixon" seems even looser than "Vineland." I would love to
see *another* introduction by Pynchon, maybe an Introduction to the
Introduction of "Slow Learner," one that takes "Vineland" and "Mason &
Dixon" into account. Sort of a "Krapp's Last Tape" thing. After all, the
souring of the Left after 1984, the emergence of PC attitudes as a near
tyrannical force in some academic/literary quarters, the relative freedoms
of the 90s and their generation.... It would be interesting to hear where
Pynchon now stands....
(This is not to imply he would be more conservative, but I am curious to
know if a new Introduction would be less, well, pedantic and harsh. I know
Pynchon is a leftie, and I am not making a case for anything else! ;)
--Quail
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