"novelists should not be altogether trusted"

[pynchonoid]

Pynchon *might* be seen to enter the debate about the
sincerity of his SLSL Intro where he discusses his
early influences, when he says, in his Foreword to
_1984_, "Well, of course novelists should not be
altogether trusted as to the sources of their
inspiration."

I think he's playing with a more general sense of
"novelists should not be altogether trusted", too, as
he plays coy with readers who have spent much time and
effort trying to figure out how to take what Pynchon
says in his novels, stories, essays, book support
quotes, letters, Ford Foundation grant applications,
etc.

Slippery as a greased pig.





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