A Few Thoughts on Pynchon After a Rereading of the Slow Learner Introduction

[Michael Bailey]

On 12/17/07, Roman Kudryashov <rkudryashov at gmail.com> wrote:
> A Few Thoughts on Pynchon After a Rereading of the Slow Learner Introduction
> Subtitle: He Told Us Himself!

a lot of good points!  Right away I wanted to reply to one --

> incredible depth, but how much of it is his, and how much are we just
> extrapolating onto overwritten word choice and drawing conclusions
> that weren't exactly meant to be drawn?

like you, I don't want to detract from the reverence, but
what I find most prevalent and compelling is humor and passion

- the 2 things I find most prevalent and compelling are humor,
passion and a way of staying with you --

the 3 things I find most prevalent and compelling are humor,
passion, a way of staying with you, and a sort of Japanese
self-effacement before/during/after doing something awe-inspiring
("mediocrity in his chroniclers too, heh-heh")

- anyway, congruently to what you've said, my list
of stuff to like goes on for awhile before getting to
"amazing research" or "incisive treatment of themes"
-- mind you, it *does* get there --



-- 
"Taste the stainless blade of liberalism, Stalinist swine!" - Phineas Freak

(by which I don't mean anybody here personally, of course...
the quote's taken from a dream sequence in the episode entitled
"Phineas Gets an Abortion"
the violence is shocking, but like all artistic depictions of violence
it is supposed to be thought-provoking!  Normally Phineas
is non-violent.  So maybe that is why his sword is stainless?
Actually in the scene he's using a shovel, though.)