Editing Pynchon?

[alice wellintown]

Check out what Freud says about Michelangelo's Moses. There are not
set pieces in the chapel. Pynchon's novels are full of set pieces.
Now, set pieces make the works wonderful. They can also make a work
long and tedious, tiresome, terrible. Can we take some set pieces out
of atd? What would happen to the structure? Well, we would need to
establish that there is a structure and then, and only then, argue if
removing a set piece would violate the building code or blue print
or/and other structural concerns. Of course, one could argue that the
set piece is needed for other reasons. Then we could argue those.

I've been teaching some works for over 11 years now. I read these
works over and over again and again. Since I stop teaching in the
university, where I taught labor and literature, and started teaching
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