NPPF -- no need to relate to Pynchon

[pynchonoid]

--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> Perhaps a one-to-one correspondence is asking too
> much in this context;
> perhaps by studying *what* VN does and *how* he does
> it, we can come to some
> better understanding of what TRP does and how he
> does it. 

That's a good point, but it will happen only if some
effort is made to show the relationship of what
Nabokov does in Pale Fire to what Pynchon does in his
novels.  

> In that context
> it is far too early in
> the discussion to begin to relate back to Pynchon; I
> have no doubt however
> that such will take place. 

In theory, yes.  It remains to be seen if that will
happen. It certainly won't if the answer to the
question, what does this have to do with Pynchon,
remains:  don't worry about it, go away, we're talking
about what we want to talk about no matter what
anybody says, & etc. You're all extraordinarily
sensitive to the notion that what you're doing doesn't
belong here -- if you were delivering the goods as
promised, I don't think you'd feel that way.

Having said that, Mr. Fidget has done a fine job of
beginning the Nabokov discussion.  Like davemarc, and
more than a few others here, however, I'm still
wondering what this Nabokov discussion is doing here
on Pynchon-L.  But perhaps we will be pleasantly
surprised.




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