Remark on Pynchon abstruseness

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 29, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> From someone who's put in no small effort on such
> fronts, trust me, such "explanations" are rarely
> merely a few keystrokes away, much less prosaic, so


And besides what has the easy availability of  huge quantities of  
indexed more-or-less reliable information have to do with good writing?

Nobody reads Pynchon for Information, I hope.




> ...
>
> --- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>> From the blog "The Monkey's Typewriter"
>>>
>>> http://threemonkeysonline.com/blogs/shane_barry/
>>>
>>> "Will Pychon's taste for esoterica, technical,
>>> linguistic or demotic, seem quite so intriguing
>>> when prosaic explanations are just a few
>>> keystrokes away?"
>>
>> No doubt Internet resources have vastly expanded in
>> the past decade, but there's still nobody else but
>> Pynchon, as far as I know, who can find the kind of
>> material he finds and deal with it the way he can
>> deal with it.
>
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