Remark on Pynchon abstruseness

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 29, 2006, at 11:49 AM, pynchonoid wrote:

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> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> And besides what has the easy availability of  huge
>> quantities of
>> indexed more-or-less reliable information have to do
>> with good writing?
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>> Nobody reads Pynchon for Information, I hope.
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> Why leave out half the fun?
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> Who besides academic specialists would know about the
> Hererom, to mention just one example and not to
> mention ____, _____, ____, & etc.) if Pynchon hadn't
> written about them.

yeah but then you have to fact check the information in order to know  
whether it's true of not.

but yeah again I suppose Pynchon IS generally educational.

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> It's his ability to single out the factoids - little
> known, or the unique approach to something well known
> - plus powerful prose and the rest of his art, that
> makes Pynchon special for me.

Me too.


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