Zoyd

[Mark Kohut]

I just rushed to plug that dam of "incoherence" claim again, for whoever still holds it. 

Yes, lots to critique, but not incoherence in my mind, unless that word
also applies to the missing and extraneous joists within the novel, held
together with nothing but P's ambition.


--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Zoyd
> To: markekohut at yahoo.com, johncarvill at gmail.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 6:19 AM
> 
> Mark:
> 
> > Once again into the breach. 
>  
> You don't have do defend AtD from me. I love the book, as
> I've frequently 
> had reason to state on this list, but I do not find it
> above critique. My quip
> about AtD having nothing but supporting characters wasn't a
> critique, though.
> As I said yesterday, Pynchon puts great care into his
> supporting characters.
> This is something he has in common with David Foster
> Wallace, who in Infinite
> Jest expressed an ambition to release these marginal
> characters (Wallace calls 
> them "figurants") from their "mute peripheral status" (IJ,
> 835). Figurants
> are traditionally the preterite of literature, but both
> Pynchon and Wallace
> insist on giving them voices.
>  
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