First ATD hatchet job

[Ya Sam]

Lists have no syntax: agreed.

Pynchon as a list-maker, well that's a lame and not very fair categorisation 
on his part. Pynchon does have lists but not as consistently and as 
extensively as, let's say, in Rabelais' case, or, to give a more modern 
example, in Peter Greenaway's case (both in cinema and in prose).



>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: First ATD hatchet job
>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:58:42 -0600
>
>You didn't read the review, at least not very closely.  He never said
>Pynchon had bad syntax.  He said Pynchon is a list-maker.  He said
>list don't have any syntax.  He badly extended this observation to say
>that Pynchon's multiple stories are a sort of list also, and that they
>therefore have no syntax (relation to each other - and to us).
>
>On 11/15/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Pynchon having bad syntax??? The reviewer must be joking. If there is a 
>>master of the sentence in contemporary English language literature it's 
>>TRP.

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