Snappycrossdresser

[Ben De Bruyn]

> 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.....  

Nor should you. Nor should you resort to the ad
hominem-arguments you attack po-mo people for (which,
I might add, probably includes everybody on this list.
pynchon is a pomo writer is he not? and yes, that was
a rhetorical question).
  
> It's not about attention.  It's a response to seeing
> so many literary types,  whether post-modernists,
> freudians, conservative New Critics, theists,

theists? that supposed to be a joke. If so, ha ha
(rolls eyes).

> feminists, marxists, etc. misconstrue and misread
> the writings of so many writers, including Pynchon.

How could we misread Pynchon, genius, if, as you point
out, 'His texts are many things to many people'? At
least now we know you actually have an alternative for
us poor inconsistent pomo-types.

> 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.

The Tractatus? Please do share. I'd be quite
interested in knowing how Wittgenstein I enlightens
Pynchon, moreover Pynchon's language.

I
> am a graduate student and in fact scored over 600 on
> all sections of the  GRE's.  How about you.  

This supposed to make us back down in awe? It proves
what, exactly?
 
>  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. 

So people should simply stop writing about Pynchon?
 
> His texts are many things to many people, and yeah
> there is fragmentation,  absurdity  overwhelming
> amounts of information,  puzzling codes, and
> narrative mazes

A bad thing if encountered in French philosophy
though.

: 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. 

Read up on some Lit. freaks before bashing them.
  
> And another thing, J Edgar Hoover of WASTE; change
> the channel if you don't dig it, foooo

In fact, I quite like the channel. You are exactly the
type I like to vent my anger on. So there.

Nevertheless, I'm quite sure you are a nice person,
somewhere deep down. So regs,
B


	
	
		
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