ATDTDA (21): He sees her point, 577-580

[Paul Nightingale]

The concept of the tourist as reader-consumer is important, I think. There
is a passage in James' Princess Casamassima (I can't find it at the moment)
that offers one reason why Pynchon might have been interested in that novel.
The Watts' essay, as an early example, is also relevant. Not least, the
tourist, as an 'invention' of modernism, might be contrasted to Benjamin's
flaneur.


From: Mark Kohut [mailto:markekohut at yahoo.com] 

Artists should be rooted (otherwise they are just tourists..and we do know
what
TRP thinks of tourists from V., at least)....
 
Artists must be rooted----perhaps like real folk should be?
 
Now the question about almost any writer who does a portrait of the artist:
How much is Hunter like TRP?