Vineland criticism

[April Phillips]

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From: <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>; "April Phillips" 
<apes1 at cox.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: Vineland criticism


> . . . the "scholars", having made personal bailiwicks out of GR and 49 
> (and being whizzes at looking up weird Jacobean words and historical 
> references to London Newspapers during the Blitz), choose to underestimate 
> "Vineland", which can just as easily be "decoded" as an anti-Reagan 
> polemic or a panorama/panegyric of Leftist activities in America's postwar 
> years. Gotta get that Alliteration in the title ["Oh I see," sez Commando 
> Connie, "it has to be allierative. How about . . . um . . .discharge 
> dumplings?"] if your gonna get published at the post-grad level. Don't 
> wanna piss off the sources of any of those big ticket endowments now, do 
> we?
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>> Well, it's newer, but doesn't at least appear to
>> require nearly the effort that M&D did, so ...
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>> --- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>> >  . . . the point I was making is that there seems
>> > to be a general scholarly aversion to Vineland....
>>
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