Editing Pynchon?

[Nushra MohamedKhan]

John, I am sorry about the "real" stuff. Really!
But we know because we are smart readers of literature and of Pynchon's works.

Again, take a look at P's comments on Nabokov and Henry Miller in SL.
P's works are, as the stuff I posted earlier argues for Film Noir,
in a conflicted relationship with the American consumer culture of
which they are a part.
Take the Pudding scene in GR or better yet, the Lake sex scene in
AGTD. While the themes of love and death and all that Normon O. Brown
stuff and the plot lines and all are important, P includes offesnsive
scenes to make a point about the pornographic consumption of
death-shit "art" in capitalist-consumption culture. he pushes Love and
Death in the American Novel (great critical text) threw the consumer's
pornographic screen.   He makes that point again and again. He could
take the Lake scene out and do no damage to the novel while increasing
his reading audience. But P dislikes CL49, in part, because the
Academy loves it. He writes, as Melville famously said of his late
great works, novels that are designed to fail.