Creative Freedom in Nabby and the Pynch

[David Morris]

--- Jasper Fidget <jasper at hatguild.org> wrote:
> VN: [...] The middlebrow or the upper Philistine cannot get rid of the
> furtive feeling that a book, to be great, must deal in great ideas.  Oh,
> I know the type, the dreary type!  He likes a good yarn spiced with
> social comment; he likes to recognize his own thoughts and throws in
> those of the author; he wants at least one of the characters to be the
> author's stooge.  If American, he has a dash of Marxist blood, and if
> British, he is acutely and ridiculously class-conscious; he finds it so
> much easier to write about ideas than about words; he does not realize
> that perhaps the reason he does not find general ideas in a particular
> writer is that the particular ideas of that writer have not yet become
> general." (p 41)

I think there are some on this list who would like to do the same to Gravity's
Rainbow.  GR is better than that.

DM


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