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[Otto]

I'm not responding to the "shitty essay"-argument in shitty posts anymore.

If some people don't want to discuss it's ok to me but then they're out.

Otto
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MalignD at aol.com 
  To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 11:34 PM
  Subject: Re: No Subject


    Thanks for responding and, I think, we agree that there's a lot in this piece that's bullshit, but I disagree with your opening premise, i.e.:



    <<Given the title of the piece, it’s not surprising or unseemly that Pynchon should construct characters and voices to portray “the mind of Watts.”>>


  Or perhaps I agree.  Perhaps it's not surprising or unseemly.  What it is is lousy journalism.

  The only value or interest this piece has is that it was written by Pynchon.  On it's own merits, it's really very bad--jejune and obvious, to say nothing of dishonest, which is the word for those invented quotes, unless one prefers "embarrassing."

  Of course, according to Nightingale and, I guess, Otto, and others, it's all fiction, so it's surely jake with them that there's nothing in the piece that indicates Pynchon ever set foot in Watts.



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