Is Pynchon antirationalist? (part 2)

[joeallonby]

on 10/20/04 2:10 AM, Glenn Scheper at glenn_scheper at earthlink.net wrote:

>> There seems to be a commonly held belief that Pynchon
>> subscribes to a poststructuralist antirationalism.
> 
>> The two cowboys,
>> played by an Englishman and a German,
>> disagree on whether a certain midget sheriff,
>> which they both see,
>> actually exists.
> 
>> "Vhen you been out on the trailand you know vhich trail
>> too, don't you you sniveling punk--for as long as I have,
>> you know ah real midget sheriff from ah hallucinated vun"
> 
Just shoot the fucker and the point is moot. I guess that is a very American
response.