Thomas Pynchon exploits history for his own selfish ends

[David Morris]

No, no, no!  It's a literary catastrophe!  It's imperative that were
indefinitely "suspend" the P-list lest Western Culture falls prey
again to the next Dark Ages!

OK.  Let's just acknowledge that when the author of the
ground-breaking, controversial (at the time), powerhouse and
cipher-laden novel that is GR produces a new and seemingly ambitious
(over 1000 page) novel, one expects it to strive for greatness.  And
when one's novels abound in ciphers of all sorts, the implication of
depth beneath it all is inescapable.  Thus the reviewer's line, "The
guy's not a god, he's just a very good writer who's not as good as he
used to be.."

I think that pretty well sums it up.

David Morris

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:47 AM, David Patty <navan.ghee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Seems like a grand overreaction on the reviewer's part.  He didn't like it,
> fine, no problem;
>
>[...]
>
> (None of this is specifically directed at you, Mr. Morris--  it's just an odd tendency I've noticed aggegate around Pynchon's books, namely that of folks, particularly fans, taking fiction altogether too seriously.)