Pairings in Nabokov and Pynchon

[Malignd]

<<Malign's blunt dismissal of your effort to share
critical commentary he deemed less than adequate for
publication, is also suggestive.>>

I specifically didn't dismiss his effort; rather the
palaver the woman wrote.  If that's suggestive, it
suggests I think the woman's ideas were banal.

<<Do the texts, and their discernible designs, 
encourage freedom or attempt to seduce one into giving
it up? Do they inspire one to share subjective
responses to the given text, or, is the net effect to
suppress the subjective in favor of a more objective
appreciation? Deciding which text ultimately results
in more freedom can de deceptive. Fascism seems to
feed on emotion and romanticism. >>

Seduce one into giving up one's freedom?  Aren't you
talking about ... reading a book?

<<Neither is conclusive, however. It may well turn out
that Pynchon's "loose and baggy" style is even more
constraining of creative freedom, in its own way, than
the more "tightly wrapped" text of Pale Fire. >>

It may; it just may, indeed.  Or then, again, it may
not.




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