Thomas Pynchon exploits history for his own selfish ends

[Mark Kohut]

> Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 11:44 AM
> Thanks, but readers with strong opinions are seldom
> geniuses....I'm an idiot savant, often with no savvy
> savantness.....just a stated gamble that I am right.......
> 
> It is amazing to me how many of 'our'books--Western
> canon since Shakespeare-- now judged to be Great, were
> trashed in their first life........
> 
> I once read a book called "The Failure of
> Criticism"---all about how many of the Best and
> Brightest of their time missed many masterpieces.
> Fascinating.
> 
> MK
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 9/25/08, David Morris
> <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Thomas Pynchon exploits history for his
> own selfish ends
> > To: markekohut at yahoo.com
> > Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 11:36 AM
> > I guess only fellow-genius's are able to see such
> > greatness immediately...
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Mark Kohut
> > <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I read once how HAMLET took about 200 years to
> have
> > it's digressive richness felt...(see essays on it
> in the
> > Norton Critical Hamlet...more than one tells of its
> slow
> > recognition)
> > >