Good Wills Hunting for Everyday People

[Robin Landseadel]

This Inherent Vice of Pynchon's "house-host humor" [try Glenn Gould's  
sometime if it's cringing you're seeking] is manifest in all of  
Pynchon's books, GR included. And I think it boils down to de gustibus  
non est disputandum. I've always been a big fan of Jay Ward,  
transpositional puns, mondegreens, The Bonzo Dog Band and Rube  
Goldberg's drawings.

Lawn-savants and fur-hench-men are features 'round these parts, not  
flaws.

On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:37 AM, David Morris wrote:

> What you say here is true, but this coin has another side, which is  
> why some react against the notion of Pynchon-lite.  Bad puns and  
> over-the-top goofiness and elaborately connected plot twists CAN  
> (but not necessarily) get tiring unless they are in service to  
> something a little deeper.  Then again, funny can be just funny.
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net 
> > wrote:
> Just remember that the author is a joke machine who puts puns and  
> really awful groaners in all of his books—especially Gravity's  
> Rainbow. Sometimes he's doing it because he thinks it's funny. Funny  
> is kinda funny, particularly when you get intensely political.