They Is Idiots

[Meg Larson]

Was tryin' real hard to stay out of this--my skin being highly 
flame-sensitive--but:


> Ok Mr. Master of the Ultra Specific Particularity ;
> like you never speak broadly or make
> genralizations...keep dreaming...when a person is a
> detractor, it presumes he/she dislikes Pynchon...one
> of the main "complaints" about him among them is his
> "lack of feeling or sentiment"...so...if they come to
> GR with that bias they will likely not grant the scene
> in question any truly human emotional
> "authenticity"

The foax I know that don't like Pynchon don't not like him because of his 
"lack of feeling or sentiment" but simply because he is too hard to read. 
In college courses where we read Pynch, par exemple _GR_, the chief 
complaint was that it didn't make sense, the sentences were too long, and 
they couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.  They didn't like 
_COL49_ because Oed didn't find what she was looking for.  To put it another 
way, they didn't have the patience or the discipline or attention span 
required to "slog" through it.  These were/are children of the instant 
gratification generation, children of the "just tell me what it means so I 
don't have to bother" generation.  They didn't want to be bothered to use 
their brains and decide for themselves what _GR_ meant to them.  Their 
criticisms of the book had nothing to do with feelings or sentiment on the 
author's part but on their own lack thereof.  A-and the shit-eating scene 
really put them off even reading further.
Par l'autre main, they liked _Vineland_ because it was readily accessible to 
them, because they could identify with the themes of music, tv, movies, etc. 
They envisioned Takeshi as George Takei.

Just a thought,
M.


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