Vineland underrated

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
To: <ottosell at yahoo.de>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: Vineland underrated
>
> >From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
> >
> >You'll see that it is possible, that there are people here who claim that
> >whenever P. says something political it's "shitty writing" or a bad
essay.
>
> I think this is an unfair characterization of past discussion here re. his
> 1984 intro and the Playboy Japan
> "interview," both of which could very arguably be deemed "shitty writing"

Why that?

> (meaning fuzzy-brained) apart from any personal political leanings.  But
> that is an old discussion.
>

No, it has been renewed by Terrance:

"In CH 6 Pynchon simply rips a few pages out of Labor History
and pastes them onto Frenesi's Mother's Family."

Otto