CoL49(6): Humbert Humbert Cats

[rich]

as I said i'm being a nitpicker

i would nix the 'or any novelist'--most of 'em are saccharine laced
maudlin perfume storms

On 7/6/09, Paul Mackin <pm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'd certainly concur that "Introduction" was not his finest hour.
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> But the idea that he felt any kind of need to make up in his
> later novels for an earlier lack of sensitivity toward women seems wrong
> to me.
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> It'll be a dark day when Pynchon (or any novelist) lets himself be
> influenced by the sensitivity police.
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> P
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