Snappycrossdresser

[jolly]

You're not here to tell anyone to do anything, punkin,' are ya now.....when I hear a lit.crit. type say "should" or "ought" I know he was never properly spanked by mommy, and he now requires a good bitch slapping.....  
 
It's not about attention.  It's a response to seeing so many literary types,  whether post-modernists, freudians, conservative New Critics, theists,  feminists, marxists, etc. misconstrue and misread the writings of so many writers, including Pynchon. Yes, I guess I am anti-theory, as far lit. theory goes. As I said previously,  a text such as  Wittgenstein's Tractatus is a much better guide to Pynchon's language than any vomited up by Derrida. I am a graduate student and in fact scored over 600 on all sections of the  GRE's.  How about you.  
 
 I happen to have enjoyed the Pynchon novels I have read (V, COL49, Vineland, working through GR), and I object to him being turned into say a Burroughsian or nihilist or JG Ballard type of decadent, or a Vonnegutian type of black humorist.  Or an industry such as James Joyce. 
 
His texts are many things to many people, and yeah there is fragmentation,  absurdity  overwhelming amounts of information,  puzzling codes, and narrative mazes: but there is also a sort of, as I said, Jeffersonian leftist-libertarianism, one which allows one to dig Hendrix as well as Bertrand Russell,  R.Crumb as well as Hawthorne, and even a compassion that so many Lit. freaks and "textualists" overlook. 
 
 
 
And another thing, J Edgar Hoover of WASTE; change the channel if you don't dig it, foooo

		
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