A Reviewer's Hunch about Pynchon's Fans

[Charles Albert]

Yeah....I've noticed that as well.....10 years and I haven't learned
anything I couldn't have picked up in a technical manual.

"gallimaufry" - how topical!


love,
cfa

On 5/27/07, Dan Hansong <danhansong at 163.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi, here is  Howard Schneider's shitty prophecy. Please share
> with us your reading spectrum and make a testimony against
> or for this iconoclastic judgment on the Pynchonites.
>
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> I have a hunch that Pynchon's zealous fans don't read
> many novels, so they're not bothered by his flaws. They
> cherish their idol because he presents the world as they
> know it: science, technology, history, politics, high and low
> culture all mashed together to make a garish gallimaufry.
> The results might be messy but so is the society the
> Pynchonites inhabit.
>
> ----Review by Howard Schneider
> May-June 2007  THE HUMANIST
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