(Almost) NP

[Mark Kohut]

>From a blogger with a boulder on his shoulder.........
  But what I have sent this around for is the title on his rant,
   
  which could be applied, yes?, to some of Pynchon's sadomasochistic lovers?
   
  masochismo!
i decided to read the crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon, mostly because i always supected that he belongs to that generation of self-obsessed, mid-century, american, male authors that i love to hate*, who are in equal parts consumed with their own brilliance and the inalienable rightness of said brilliance. oh, and fearing and resenting women and people of colour, too.

anyway, of this ilk having only read tom robbins (fantastic when i was an idiotic seventeen year-old hippie and abhorrent later), jack kerouac (ditto, though less so the latter), and ernest hemingway (author of the old man and the sea, a book i threw across the room in disgust no less than three times), i was hoping to be proven wrong with pynchon. i am sorry to report that i hated it, also.

i think i need to go get drunk and dance to madonna. 

       
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