a devil's advocate

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I agree that in ATD, given it's length,  there were fewer stand-out sections in terms of prose or content, at least in the first go-round.  But the mind-boggling connections were still there.  I never felt I was reading anything but classic Pynchon throughout the book.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Lack <andrew.lack at verizon.net>
>Sent: Dec 9, 2006 6:37 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: a devil's advocate
>
>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.
>