Watts article

[Keith McMullen]

 >>> he continued to present intellectually challenging,
subversive works no matter where they were published.<<<

The above may accurately describe his novels, esp. GR, but the essays 
are shitty.

 >>>I'm not sure I understand what need is satisfied by
tarring Pynchon with the "sell-out" brush, beyond the
exercise of a merely sophomoric iconoclasm.<<<

Or, if this kind of assertion meets the standards of discourse here, 
one could ask what need is satisfied by unreflective adoration of every 
word Pynchon writes, beyond the exercise of a schoolboy crush.