MMV: Context

[Ghetta Life]

>From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>
>Here's the part that you should've quoted:
>
>"He (i.e. White) misses the early signs of Siegel's amorality

Could someone who agrees with this above point out to us what those "early 
signs of Siegel's amorality" are.

>as well as Pynchon's implicit criticism of Siegel's behavior.

As well as "Pynchon's implicit criticism of Siegel's behavior."

>Most important, White fails to recognize that we misread Siegel because we 
>tend to read, especially in the absence of death (or some equally dramatic 
>situation), indifferently. And indifference, Pynchon shows us, is deadly, 
>both in extreme cases (Loon's attack) as well as in less dramatic ones 
>(evaluating Siegel). In White's haste to distance himself from Siegel's 
>position, he overlooks the fact that it is Pynchon who nudges the reader 
>toward the moral high ground.[sup13]"

I think this quote above is a silly and desperate attempt to rescue this 
story from itself.  Of course we read indifferently, unless something in the 
fiction moves us to do otherwise.  MMV doesn't.  So according to this 
critic, we've fallen into Pynchon's devious trap by not being moved by his 
subtle fiction.  Pardon me, but what crap.

Ghetta

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