The flattened American landscape of minor writers

[Robin Landseadel]

I'm sorry, this is a semidiotic discussion of signifiers &  
"difference", abuse is two doors down and to the left.
On Feb 24, 2009, at 9:16 AM, David Gentle wrote:

>> Updike Schmupdike!
>> Why do these slavering articles on Updike (and Roth) in the English
>> press always discount, in fact often fail entirely to mention,  
>> Pynchon?
> Because they're not about him? And he's not dead yet?
>
> David Gentle


	. . .Thus the remarkably theory-saturated approaches of the
	1990s and early 2000s have, as McHoul and Wills explained,
	often explicitly abandoned the idea of exegetically tracing (and
	explaining) the "'actual,' 'underlying' rationale for Pynchon's
	writing" . . .

http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/fictionspresent/speculated

Remarkably ad-hominum-saturated approaches to flaming often explicitly  
abandon the idea of exegetically tracing (and explaining) the  
"'actual'  Pynchon's writing" . . .