Jeez Louise

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 9, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, malignd at aol.com wrote:
>
>> How easy your mind is boggled.

It's my corrupted noggin that trolld is pointing to.

>> My point is simply that treating Pynchon as beyond criticism and  
>> comparison is of little benefit to anyone or anything.  You want  
>> this list to be a fan club.  I don't.
>
> A lotta fans belong to it.
>
> Being a Pynchon fan doesn't meaning you necessarily think he's the  
> heavy weight champion of the world for novelists.
>
> It just means he's got something you like a lot.
>
>
> P

FWIW, Proust is my all-time heavyweight champion novelist of the  
world. It's just that Pynchon is the most amusing major novelist I'm  
aware of. Let's face it, milk doesn't shoot through you nose while  
reading Swann's Way but it might while you're reading certain passages  
in Gravity's Rainbow.

And, yeah---this is a great place for diversions, misdirections and  
brownie recipes. Not to mention candy drills . . .