Watts article

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<<But the style of attribution ("they", "others" etc)
is also deliberate on Pynchon's part: he's trying to
get into "the mind" of Watts, reporting on the general
"mood" of the locals.>>

Add "man" and "baby" and "cat" and stir vigorously.

<<I don't think "callow" (*and* "jejune"!) or "flat"
are particularly apt descriptors. And saying it's
"good" or "bad" ... it's that sort of subjectivity
that's callow.

As a Sunday magazine feature, it does what it does
effectively.>>

I think I've made plenty clear my reasons for finding
the article lacking.  ("Does what it does effectively"
isn't much of an argument either, so far as that
goes.)

You think the article works; I don't.  I think it's
lazy, unremarkable, and would be remembered by no one,
were Pynchon's name not attached. 
 


		
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