meta [part the second]

[David Morris]

The statements below demonstrate the trap of taking literature
literally.  Never a good idea for one wishing to remain rational.
Robin is not the only one currently playing here to fail this way.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> T 'n A approaches the texts more as literature, I approach them more as revisionist history.
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> There are many striking things about Gravity's Rainbow. For me the sense of the innate corruption at the center of the Second World War was particularly intense.
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> Others—with every good reason—look on Pynchon's novels as literature, I tend to look at them more as history.