First ATD hatchet job

[David Casseres]

On 11/15/06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Well said.  We're no different than the folks who read and re-read
Homer, for the enjoyment, or who take Shakespeare seriously enough to
read the plays after we're out of school, or, for that matter, the
folks who read serious poetry at all.