Vineland underrated

[Ghetta Life]

>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
> >
> > 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?

Opinions about the *quality* of the writing are independent of one's 
agreement with the message.

> > (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."

It seems to me Terrance is talking about the quality of the writing 
(pasteboard characters and story lines, "shorthand" as I said earlier), not 
Pynchon's or Terrance's political leanings.  Pynchon is wrinting a fiction, 
not a personal memoir.

Ghetta

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