First ATD hatchet job

[rich]

I also wonder about the acolytes screed us Pynchon readers get tagged with.
Pynchon brings to the table a large amount of things that for anyone curious
leads to more and more innocent investigation of a disparate range of
topics.
we're not reading the Torah but a writer who sparks the imagination to find
out about the world out there. good writing leads to good reading which
leads to other good writing, etc...
one of the things I think that makes Pynchon more attractive than say
Joyce--Joyce wanted you to study him for a lifetime. Pynchon is the
anti-Joyce in that regard

rich

On 11/15/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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