(Nabokov-free) P-list hypocrites' true colors

[pynchonoid]

>If we accept the criteria proposed here by Malign
>and
>Big Bird (assuming for the moment that they are
>distinct individuals), then obviously it's OK to 
>discuss Pynchon's politics, or to wander farther
>afield 

Malin:
>An organized reading by a number of list members of a
>novel by another writer, one who taught at Cornell
>while TP was there and may, indeed, have taught TP

Put this way, it does promise something interesting,
although it remains to be seen if this group reading
of Pale Fire will shed any special light on a reading
of Pynchon.  Nobody's even bothered to pluck out
excerpts of those papers that are supposed to discuss
both Pynchon and Nabokov, for example.

Certainly, Malign hasn't offered anything to the Pale
Fire reading that advances the understanding of
Pynchon's work.

By the way, didn't Nabokov, or his wife, say that they
had no recollection of Pynchon as Nabokov's student?
(Those old chestnuts do create the impression of
substance in  an otherwise watery casserole of muddled
rationalizations, don't they.)




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