Pynchon's fat novel repudiated?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Otto wrote:
> > I know  a few Europeans who have read Underworld
> > and they did *not* like it. It was too American.
[snip]
> > Bekah
>
> Please note exceptions. I liked it.
[snip]
> Otto


Please note an exception to an exception: if you ask me,
Underworld just wasn't American *enough*. Baseball could
not salvage that hopelessly flaccid and mawkish European
impressionism. Whereas GR, JR, The Public Burning, Moby
Dick, U.S.A.... they spell  A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N  in my book.


Heikki

P.S. Been trying to catch cheap flights from Stockholm to
Malta (which would make me a sort of anti-Stencil indeed;
I'll be touring Sweden with the shouter choir just before
the "Transit of Venus", and it struck me that combining
the two trips would make sense).