Does Pynchon Produce Only 'Masterworks'?

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:16 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> Statements like this always make me a little batty.  No other author could
> have written GR because no other author is Pynchon.  But GR is not "far
> beyond" War and Peace or Ulysses or In Search of Lost Time, or Moby Dick or
> Pale Fire or 100 Years of Solitude or .... fill in as you see fit.
>
> We all love GR, but this sort of mindless idolatry is the bane of this list
> (and makes me thing you haven't read very much).

Me, Pynchon 'n' Beckett ('n', uh, say, Jack Kirby) are my guys , and,
yeah, likely Shakepeare and Joyve at LEAST ought to be up there with
'em for me, but ... but tehy're teh guys who make me ask, why do they
do what they do in the first place?  They're the guys who make me read
the critics, not to mention "simply" Look Things Up,  But Pynchon's
fas are notably chattier--not to mention, generally, at least,
friendlier--than most anyone else's I've encountered, so ...

... so idolatry I haven't seen so much of here, unless I've been blind
to my own ldolatrous, uh, ness, mea culpa, mea culpa ...