AtDTdA: (9) 248 Wednesday's kick-ass question

[Ray Easton]

On Thursday, May 17, 2007, at 06:56 US/Central, Jasper wrote:

> And how much of our understanding of AtD is built upon our 
> expectations of what a Pynchon novel is or should be?

Almost all of it.  And for good reason -- AtD is a parody of a "Pynchon 
novel".  This point has been made repeatedly by negative reviewers, but 
the point is valid whether or not one thinks that this is something 
negative.

Ray