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[John Carvill]

> I look at it this way: I wonder why Pynchon does--or, at any rate,
> writes, God know what he does--anything that he does.  VL, M&D and AtD
> rarely if ever had the nigh unto nonstop "what could possibly have
> provoked that?" moments the Lot 49 and GR still and likely will always
> hold for me

I know what you mean. Then again, lets take M&D as an example. Is not
the bravura literary feat Pynchon pulled off not 'what provoked that'
enough? IN a different way, I could say the same of ATD .

> The wuestion then is,
> have perhaps T. 'n' R.perceived Pynchon's purpose,

Have they shite!

> T., and even, perhaps, Robt., will continue to clarify what I've been
> taking as their dual Nietzchean assault on received (they would argue,
> i think, desired) wisdom  in re; Pynchon's preterite, who I THINK
> they've been reading all these yarin as pointed exemplars of Friedrich
> N.'s posited "slave mentality."  Less mercy, they say, not more, they
> say Pynchon sez, our liberally bleeding hearts be damned, but ...
>

What's this 'continue to' clarify? I see no clarification. I have
heard a lot of hints, from some people, of  'oh if only you understood
Pynchon like I understand Pynchon...', but as you yourself recently
pointed out, these people seldom if ever seem to, like, get to,
y'know, the point, man?

If their 'reading' of Pynchon is as you describe above, that Pynchon
is calling for less rather than more mercy, some sort of
sadomasochistic neocon bullshit, then that can only be down to some
sort of mental illness or drugs or both.