AtD - well, whadda ya know ...

[jd]

I didn't not like Vineland.  If Joe Schmoe as opposed to Thomas
Pynchon wrote it, I wouldn't think twice about it.  It's just that
there's a standard you expect when you read Pynchon, and it doesn't
live up to it.  Doesn't mean it's not "good", but it's not "Pynchon
good".  I see nothing sniveling about this standpoint.  And I don't
think it's beyond belief that Pynchon would want to write a book
similar to others he's enjoyed... it would seem to be a sensible thing
to do.

If Stone Junction was written by Pynchon as opposed to Dodge, I'd be
saying the same thing.  As it is, I like Stone Junction just fine,
because Dodge didn't write a book along the lines of V or Gravity's
Rainbow.  There isn't the same standard.

On 8/7/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >So I sez:
> >
> >  Considering that GR & M&D are the two that are
> >undisputably in the running for such a label, what do
> >they have in common that the other works don't?
>
> Scale
>
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