re Re: SLSL language

[Malignd]

<<The garbage you have posted here speaks for itself,
it's all in the PYNCHON-L archives, search on
"MalignD".>>

Which is to say you can't cite any such remarks.  

<<No, your dismissal is the non sequitur. If Hurston,
Ellison, and other novelists who write "non-standard
English" had followed your rules and shared your
detestation of Black English, they wouldn't have
written many of the beautiful things they wrote. >>

Nowhere have I stated a detestation of Black English. 
Nor have I said anything about prescribing grammar to
language as used in poetry or fiction or to any other
artistic purpose by Whites of Blacks.  You're
flailing, Scoop.

<<Thank goodness they had the wisdom and courage to
persist in the face of a mainstream culture that too
often dismissed them as Other in part because of
language.>>

Thank goodness.

<<...AND how to create beautiful prose by ignoring 
rules.>>

Yes.  Note the "AND."

<<Pynchon is all about inclusion (both/and) and
avoiding the seductive but deadly either-or
formulations that are the hallmark of Malign's
elistist pontifications here.>>

What would Tom do.  You're very likely the only one on
this list who would take sides in an argument over
prescriptive grammar according to what you believe
Pynchon thinks.





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