Temperance Pledge

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 10:50, Jasper Fidget wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> > Behalf Of Paul Mackin
> > 
> > Pynchon doesn't seem to attract "right wing" readers, although there was
> > that annoying person a while back whom everyone lighted into and
> > eventually drove away.
> > 
> > The "genre" types attracted to Pynchon seem to fall into at least three
> > categories:
> > 
> > the left, even the loony left;
> > 
> > science fiction aficionados;
> > 
> > the god hungry.
> > 
> > There may be others. Suggestions?
> 
> English majors and other lit geeks.  (Pynchon can -- and I would say
> *should* -- be elevated above the political)

There's a remark by Nabokov, in either the autobiography or the
lectures, to the effect that any ass can describe how Tolstoy felt about
adultery. Might be extended to any ass can describe how Pynchon felt
about the Holocaust, WWII, Vietnam, Nixon, television.

P.


> 
> Libertarians.  ("Right"?  "Left"?  What do you mean?  In what context?)
> 
> Don't forget pretentious snobs.