The Influence of Pynchon's Paranoia or Postulations for Paranoid

[Nushra MohamedKhan]

> that's the problem--its a shallow argument, and painfully obvious.

Not the problem, but the point. The point is that what was once novel
is now old hat. Pynchon was once out on the edge of a paranoid post
World War II American Literature that "inspired" a generation of
artists and academics, but now his themes are painfully obvious.


>
> We are obliged to Scout; to see the World from
> inside another man's skin. Otherwise, we just gonna kill off all the
> Mockingbirds and sit around making up gothic tales about a Man we
> think is a Ghost. We gotta go to the Black Church. We gotta sit up
> there with the Black Folk during the Trial.

Sorry, this is allusion to Harper Lee's _To Kill a Mockingbird_; a
timless novel that preaches lessons but never offends the reader.