Can Pynchon write (yet)?

[terrance terrance]

I guess I'm guilty of focusing on the spec in the eye of Paul Nightingale's 
post.

Paul Nightingale qualified what he claims is  one of GR-P's flaws and 
weaknesses (elements of mysogyny), with the excuse that the young and 
brilliant P was a man of his time.

As time past, P matured. His writing is more sophisticated now. He doesn't 
over-write. He's not swinging for the fence. He's got nothing to prove.  
He's a man of our time now. Is Marquez a man of our time? Is Roth?

Is ours a time so politically correct that brilliant young novelests and old 
men novelists  must submit there texts to the less than brilliant editors 
and publishers who, when reaching for a spec in the big-bang, fail to see 
the political planls in their own?

And why can't he write like he once did?

VL and M&D may be for sophisticated, but they are not as great as GR.

Maybe elements of mysogyny, a spec in the eye of the big bang novel the 
brilliant young man of his time wrote,  are not so important.

T



>On Nov 5, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Paul Nightingale wrote:
>
>>In the interests of clarification, before y'all decide to print the  
>>legend:
>>I did not (note the use of the negative there) say GR was less  
>>sophisticated
>>because it was misogynistic.
>>
>>
>>
>and if I helped perpetuate the legend I apologize.
>
>P.

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