re VLVL Pynchon's eye for detail

[Dave Monroe]

Hear, hear ...

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> I disagree that there is only "little, if any real
> discussion of the works themselves here" as long as
> every other opinion as the one expressed by the
> alphas on this list is immediately ridiculed.  Not
> everybody has the nerve to take this for years.

There are tims I think I stick with simply so as not
to have knuckled under.  Not so much DEspite, or even
IN spite of, certain tendencies here, as TO spite
them.  Ultimately, Nothing discourages participation
here more than, well, constant discouragement ...

> The unwillingness to discuss has been sufficiently
> expressed in the discussion of the "1984"-foreword
> where obvious references to actual US-politics
> simply were declared as non-existing.

You really oughtta read Robert's paper in the recent
Pynchon Notes, Otto, he displays a far greaters
receptivity towards similitudes there.  AND he's
neither condenscending nor outright insulting.  No,
really, worth reading, gotta look up Patrick White ...

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