Slate-d

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/20/2006 10:15:52 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
matthew.ryan at gmail.com writes:

>From the article's comments section:
 
    Subject: Pynchons legions of fans?  From: danielmartinx  Date: Jul 19 
2006 4:16PM  
"Last month, lit-bloggers and  news-writers reported that Penguin Press would 
issue the author's sixth  novel in December. This whetted the palates of 
those hard-core fans who  have spent the years since 1997's Mason & Dixon 
speculating that  Pynchon was at work on a doozy ..." 

All three of those fans?  Maybe four?

Pynchon's first books were interesting and pleased  the university crowd 
enough to be taught repeatedly over the decades,  but the university crowd has 
turned its back on him. As well they  should. His "complexity" is just bad 
writing -- unclear, unrevised,  pointless. Please don't burden us with his 
celebrity, O Slate. Please  free us from being tied to a has-been who virtually 
never-was.  




I'd love to see danielmartinx enter the P-list, just so we could have at  
him. What a moron.
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