NYTBR review

[rich]

they need hooks, something to hang their hats on, these critics, these
publications

but the mountains of ingredients stuffed into a Pynchonian mountain does not
lend itself to such simple braces

so they settle for the lower latitudes where what they don't see up above
can be easily explained away or ignored

rich

On 11/27/06, gp <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wonder if reviewers try to explain the lack of a photo in more
> eloquent terms, just to have editors chop that paragraph out and slap
> in "notoriously reclusive".  "Reclusive" is almost a required word for
> Pynchon articles, it seems, and I imagine that it's been flubbed by
> editors into more than one bit.
>
> On 11/22/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Nice review except "notoriously reclusive" is all
> > wrong and "famously solitary" (I think that was it) is
> > just dumb. She's calling Pynchon was a hermit? How
> > would she, or anybody except the individuals involved,
> > know?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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