Annoying Sub-meta-musings

[Mark Kohut]

well, a verbal/logical move from "prissy" readers (re personal responses) to a rather wholesale condemnation of the exegesis.
   
  As if exegesis should be like TRP's art....
   
  So, let's do better....(Although i've learned a lot from the exegesis and that infamous sex scene is in the future) 
   
   
  

Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
  
On Mar 30, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Keith wrote:

> I came to Pynchon via Gravity's Rainbow, which was found so 
> offensive it was denied a Pulitzer, and which's National Book Award 
> was recepted by Irwin C. Corey, so it has been surprising to me 
> that the Pynchon list (moreso now than earlier) is dominated by 
> rather prissy folks having more in common with the Pulitzer people 
> than Irwin C. Corey. My god, people get in such a tizzy about 
> alleged rudeness and negativity. We are discussing an author who 
> dispenses imagery of slurping down turds and fucking damsels doing 
> the four corners hokey pokey, and we get such a reaction to rather 
> tame discourse. The exegesis here often seems more like a vasectomy 
> or a lobotomy of this man's outrageous art.

Yeah, where did all these friggin' list nannies come from?

P.


 	 
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