MMV: Windigo

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 02:33, Otto wrote:
>  Read carefully nobody can identify with Siegel
> or any other character in the story, Grossman maybe being the only
> exception.


This is because we're not 22, which seems to me about the age of Siegel
despite some misdirection (30 indeed). 22 hapened also of course to be
Pynchon's age, and he was writing from what he had experienced to date
in life--college lectures, a lot of reading, a few mysteriously mascared
girls at parties. I don't think the story is at all bad. King's analysis
is complete baloney. Careless reading is dangerous to your health. Well,
no more than careless literary criticism. If anyone is immature it it
King, who suffers as a critic from an over supply of healthimindedness
and insufficient appreciation of the self-estranged spirit as necessary
to artistic development, not to say The Spirit itself. P had an early
inkling.


Is Ghetta Goethe?