a devil's advocate

[Tore Rye Andersen]

I guess you're preaching to the choir, here. I haven't seen a single post on 
the list calling AtD superior to - or even as good as - GR, so I'm not sure 
exactly who is deluding oneself here. GR is more or less out of this world, 
and to've expected Pynchon to produce a work comparable to that novel 
*would* have been pure delusion, in the same vein as expecting Melville to 
keep cranking out one 'Moby-Dick' after another. Some reviewers seem to've 
had those expectations, and have judged AtD accordingly, but the rest of us 
are just grateful that Pynchon has produced yet another wonderful novel.
Your "eyeopener" is attempting to pry open eyes that are already wide 
open...


>From: "Andrew Lack" <andrew.lack at verizon.net>

>Put down AtD and reread the great Kirghiz Light chapter in GR-hate to say
>it, but the writing in that chapter alone is objectively superior to
>anything I've encountered so far in 600 pages of the new book, however 
>great
>in its own on-again-off-again manner.. So, ya, stop deluding yourselves.
>Guess Pynchon's progression ought best be described by that Dylan line from
>"My Back Pages": Oh I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

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