MMV: Windigo

[jbor]

Summing up, it appears the only way for some readers to make the case for
'MMV' as a "good" story is to transform Siegel into a "monster" and a
"psychopath", promote Grossman as some concealed moral yardstick within the
text, judge a non-Western culture as a "moral failure", and speculate that
Pynchon omitted it and any mention of it from _Slow Learner_ because readers
and critics didn't, and don't, get it, as Vincent King tries to do in his
essay.

I don't buy any of it. While there are some nice turns of phrase and
provocative and interesting ideas, and moments of glib humour, I can
certainly understand why Pynchon chose to discard it when he was putting
together his collection of early stories.

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