"The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon

[Xavier Marcó del Pont]

Oh my...

This "blogger" (to be civil, and avoid using a different word)  
condemns Pynchon, Joyce, Eco, and Beckett (who surely is alluded to  
as one of "the modern artists of the 60s who did things simply  
because they were an exercise in taking things to logical extremes")  
on account of his own inability to tackle difficult texts.

Sad, really. His shortcomings as a reader should not reflect badly on  
the quality of the aforementioned writers. In fact, if he finds it so  
hard to read, I see no point in him writing at all. Even in blog  
form. Particularly if he has not been able to finish any of Pynchon's  
books. How deluded must he be to complain about the effort involved  
in reading the texts? How self-centred and petty? Without question,  
the effort involved in reading Pynchon's books is dwarfed by the  
effort involved in writing them.

There is a saying in French, that goes along these lines: Only dogs  
and bitches piss on monuments.

Enough said.

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Re: "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon

Some obscure blog by a couple of non-expert readers about what they
like and dislike is so harmless that it hardly merits reading on the
P-list, let alone a response to the blogger, unless it were to be in
the most benign and helpful spirit.  He didn't say that people who
like Pynchon are deluded fools...

David Morris

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>  
wrote:
 > Does anyone have the heart to tell this self-important blowhard  
that there IS a collection of short stories?
 >
 >> http://stephandtony.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/the-crying-of-lot-49- 
by-thomas-pynchon/
 >
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