Vineland underrated
Ghetta Life
ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 26 14:34:34 CDT 2003
>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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