MMV: Windigo

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: MMV: Windigo
>
> Is Ghetta Goethe?
>

Paul, I had this suspicion too. A case of illegal cloning:-)

>
> King's analysis is complete baloney.
> Well, no more than careless literary criticism.
>

Critics, Goethe said, are the cracked mirror in the grand ballroom of the
creative spirit. No, I said, they were, rather, the extra baggage on the
great cabriolet of conceptual progress. "Eckermann," Goethe said, "shut up."
(Donald Barthelme, Conversations with Goethe, 40 Stories, Penguin 1989, p.
69)

das Ott