A Reviewer's Hunch about Pynchon's Fans

[Dave Monroe]

--- Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>   Clive James in his recent book, Cultural Amnesia,
> does a nice riff on how we (in general) have
> overrated many difficult epical works----from The
> Faerie Queen, thru Paradise Lost thru scores of
> others because we gave so much time and effort to
> simply "getting it'---and retroactively want to feel
> it was all worth it.

Okay, just put a hit out on this one @ the library.  I
have a feeling that DESPITE quite easily getting it,
I'll retroactively want to feel James' book was worth it.


       
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