Your Arm's Too Short to Fight with Thomas Pynchon

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 11:50:25 CDT 2008


I never meant dismissal.  GR is probably my favorite novel.  Still
categorizing genre(s) it embodies is a form of analysis and places it
in historical context.

That said, I think COL40 was a sort of dry run of GR, and much less successful.

David Morris

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:37 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine once outraged me by dismissing my idol Dostoyevsky as a cheap crime writer.  You can reduce D or TRP to the pulp elements of their novels, but there's little for the reader to gain by doing so.
>
> Laura



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