Editing Pynchon?

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 7, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Chris Broderick wrote:

> What is clear about Pynchon is that he is a picaresque novelist,  
> rather than a narrative storyteller, or a plumber of psychological  
> depths.  He's more willing to digress for any number of reasons,  
> serious or frivolous ("for DeMille fur henchmen can't be rowing"?),  
> which is seen by some as anathema in the modern novel.  To expect  
> otherwise means that you are barking up the wrong trouser leg.

What's clear about Pynchon's lit-crit industry is that many who  
embraced Gravity's Rainbow now have buyer's remorse. They can't cop to  
their own political sensibilities having settled in and down in their  
years after college while Pynchon is still sits at the far left wing  
of the table. Against the Day wandered over all the ranges of  
political discourse from 1893 to the early 1920's, offering more  
insider's views of left-wing cabals than right. The propertied class  
usually gets short shrift in Pynchon and that's never going to change.