AtD and 9/11

[David Gentle]

> Do some people on this list actually think that this is not intended 
> ironically??!!!
> Steve Maas
>
>
> Pynchon wrote:
>>No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.
I'm not saying either way.
Ages ago (years) I made the point that we all have our own personal idea of 
what P. is like, our own personal Pynchon in our heads.
I think people are reading an awful lot of what they want to believe about 
P. into his words. The analysis of the intro to Slow Learner from a couple 
of years ago that basically refused to take anything he actually said at 
face value and assumed that there was some infinate depth to what seemed, to 
me at least, to be fairly straightforward statements bothered me. Maybe the 
guy really does believe that he's not that great. Maybe he believes that 
he's not as good as everyone else says he is. Maybe that's why he stays out 
of the limelight.
But I don't know. And neither does anyone else here.
That's all I'm saying really.

DG