AtD and 9/11

Keith McMullen keithsz at mac.com
Mon Aug 14 22:22:08 CDT 2006


Pynchon is throwing in his two cents to keep many readers from doing  
to the new novel what they did to his 1984 foreword.

> "No reference to the present day is intended or should be
> inferred"

Most excellent.

He's an artist creating fiction. What a concept.

On Aug 14, 2006, at 7:58 PM, David Gentle wrote:

> I read "No reference to the present day is intended or should be
> inferred" as a very harsh sarcastic jab to draw attention to the
> parallels between the period described and our present day...
Why? I read the whole thing as sounding slightly pissed off, knowing  
that people would read whatever they want into his book and him not  
being able to do anything other than right a half hearted blurb to  
try to clarify things.
Don't you think that if he wanted to make a statement about modern  
America he could?

DG




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