Let Pynchon be Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

--- Keith McMullen <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:

> terrence is going to offer his reading of ATD and
> it will be very entertaining.....if only others
> would offer their readings with as much genius and
> creativity.....

A.greed ...

> those who think there is a 'correct' reading will
> waste time trashing his offerings instead of
> putting the effort and research into offering
> their own.....

... though here I will defend anyone's right to
critique--with the responsibilities that that
entials--without necessarily having a full-blown, or
even well-developed, alternative, beyond simply
"something else."  There are things one can take issue
with that don't necsssarily require having a definiite
alternative at hand (though it doesn't hurt) ...

> my reading of Pynchon is that [...] .....he mirrors
> the human predicament in all of its complexity like
> no other......

... but I second that e-motion as well.  In fact, I
think it'd carry unanimously here--esp. recalluing
that "lie no other" need not mean any better (aor any
worse) than any other--so ...

Me, I'm excited by even while I worry that we're ALL
likely going to be called with this one, we'll all
have to lay our cards on the table ...


 
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