Lit Me Up on Kakutani on Pynchon (was Google blog alert...)

[davemarc]

Says Lit Me Up on Kakutani on Pynchon:

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http://some-lit-blog.blogspot.com/2006/10/in-praise-of-judgement-wisdom-of.h
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When not inflammatory, her writing can be penetrating and illuminating, not
to mention succinct. Her summation of roughly three thousand pages of
Pynchon:

"The Great Big Question in Thomas Pynchon's novels, from ''V.'' (1963)
through ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973) and ''Vineland'' (1990), has been: Is
the world dominated by conspiracies or chaos? Are there patterns, secret
agendas, mysterious codes -- in short, a hidden design -- to the burble and
turmoil of human existence, or is it all a product of chance?"

For those unfamiliar with Pynchon, that is the literary-criticism equivalent
of a snake digesting an elephant.

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I'd suggest it's closer to touching the tip of an elephant's tail and saying
it's an elephant's tail.

d.