the picnic
Joseph Tracy
brook7 at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 26 10:21:12 CDT 2004
I lived in Arcata in Humboldt County for 8 years and I 've met the loggers, back to the landers, dope-growers, scrabblers, and radicals that fill this book. So far I like them a lot better than I like your take on them. I just don't read Pynchon as a hyper-critical despiser of everyone who doesn't fit his moral ideals. And as far as your lambasting his humor, how about coming up with a better comic novel yourself. Hell, a comic sentence or paragraph would be a good change.
I don't think
it's that glowing a family portrait at all -- they're cheats and shysters
and career-loggers,
Joseph Tracy
brook7 at earthlink.net
Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.
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