Can Pynchon write (yet)?

[Steven]

	I don't see why not -- social attitudes change over time and the  
art, whether book or painting, doesn't.  Degas was more or less  
misogynistic and a horrid anti-Semite to boot.  This didn't affect  
the quality of his work at all.  If anything, his portrayal of women  
was like a splash of cold water in the face of the hot-house culture  
he grew up in.  The deeply creative artist (who happens to be  
afflicted with one or another of these phobias) is a horse of a diff.  
color compared to the trailer park edition of the same set of attitudes.

	Aristocratic crap?  Unpleasant truth?

On Nov 4, 2006, at 10:26 PM, Tofuman wrote:

> Another one is, 'can there be a misogynistic literary masterpiece?

Steven



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