ATD: NO SPOILERS NO PAGE # Re: Rocketmen and Wastelands

[pynchonoid]

Funny how, after taking me to task for somehow failing
to understand the nature of the Pynchon-l discussion,
"Morris" and other like-minded sockpuppets don't seem
to be able to understand why people who enjoy
Pynchon's books would gather here to talk about them
and about why they enjoy them, and otherwise analyze
them endlessly from a million different angles as
we've been doing the nearly 10 years I've been here. 
It's amazing these people would join this discussion
somehow expecting people here not to talk about why
they like Pynchon or discuss his works in a generally
positive context. Doh!

Predictions, based on previous experience with new
Pynchon novels:

1.  Some idiots will continue to criticize and
complain about p-listers who look forward to reading
ATD or who are already reading and enjoying it. These
comments will appear on Pynchon-l several times a day
as long as ATD is mentioned, forever, without end.
Most will come from Titted Billy.

2.  More and longer reviews will appear online and in
print, and most critics will praise ATD highly, while
at the same time picking one or another nit, and at
least one will play a Titted Billy-style contrarian
role and piss and crap all over the new book.

3.  Pynchon scholars will begin to read and study ATD.
 They will find strengths and weaknesses, and a vast
number of interconnections with other Pynchon texts as
well as with a large number of texts out there in the
world. 

4.  Speculation will resume next year that Pynchon
will be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; this
will continue each year until he wins it.

5. Pynchon will publish at least one more novel after
ATD, but I'm guessing he may take steps to prevent
leaving behind any material that might be fashioned
into books for publication without his assistance.
This will be a tragedy, imho, if it happens.

6. Pynchon-l will sustain a lively and informative
discussion of ATD, even as many participants withold
judgement on the novel as a whole.  Surprisingly,
people who seem to be enjoying it (judging from the
tone of what they write about it) during the
discussion, will later claim they  didn't really like
it because nothing, after all, can compare with
Gravity's Rainbow. When reminded of the passion with
which they engaged ATD during the discussion, they
will stare blankly and mutter under their breath about
Gravity's Rainbow.

7. No matter how well-rounded and fully fleshed out
the characters are in ATD, some lunkheads will
continue to dish out the
it-was-always-wrong-in-the-first-place observation
that Pynchon's characters are 2-dimensional; I refer
you to Frenesi, to name one, if this is your
particular delusion. They will never support this
assertion with specific evidence from Pynchon's books,
because once they start looking at these characters,
instead of just passing along the commonplace
observation, they will realize that Pynchon's
characters are, most of them who are more than a
passing mention, complex and intriguing creatures.  

8.  Titted Billy will raise his butt to salute this
post, showing what he's made of.



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