Concepts as characters (was: Why don't women read Pynchon?)

[terrance terrance]

>
>If all we bring to the party is expectations from one thread of European 
>and
>American fiction of the last few hundred years, the realistic novel, then 
>we
>may be led to ask silly questions about what's inside those magic marks
>instead of more interesting questions about what response the author is
>trying to evoke in us.

I doubt that anyone is going to hang their Realistic Novel shingle out and 
try to make a living here.
I'm sure there is a Tom Wolfe list serve open on the www.

What do you mean by what's inside those magic marks?

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