Editing Pynchon?

[Robin Landseadel]

Gravity's Rainbow is choppy, confusing and episodic, a lash-up of  
styles & scenes & way too many characters guaranteed to confuse &  
alienate. V.'s worse. Of course, after some time dots are connected,  
sections reconcile and so forth and so on. The third time you take on  
these loose, baggy, seemingly incoherent monsters they start to  
cohere. Of such transformations are literary reputations made.

Against the Day appeared during the peak moment for the whole Harry  
Potter/Genre Fiction/Big-Box Bookstore juggernaut and I read much of  
AtD as commentaries and carom shots on the history of genre fictions  
up to and including Harry Potter, just as I see Inherent Vice as  
continuing and refining those commentaries. Pynchon already wrote his  
great incomprehensible book in Mason & Dixon, it was time to move to  
greener pastures.

In any case, I jes loves muh AtD. But you already knew I was a fanboy,  
right?

On Aug 7, 2009, at 6:53 AM, David Morris wrote:

> It wasn't meant as a compliment.  But I also said "opinions differ."
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Carvill  
> John<johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Come on, David. Sloppiness is arguable (and a tad insulting), I  
>> agree it is baggy but it's built that way: not so much 'fat' as  
>> 'big boned'.
>>
>> But decline in skill? I don't think so.