MMV: Windigo

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: MMV: Windigo


> judge a non-Western culture as a "moral failure"

Nobody did that, King didn't do it and nobody on this list. Nobody has said
a word that the Ojibwa-culture is in any way minor to what you call Western
culture.

>
> 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.

Oh, best, than you can surely explain why "The Small Rain" (for example) is
so much better that it had to be in that collection.

That Pynchon chose those stories is another speculation.

I don't buy your still unproven assertion that Pynchon wrote that story out
of some juvenile lust for disaster.

Otto