Skeptic's Take on the Life and Argued Works of...

[rich]

just hope that Pudding episode didn't come from direct experience!

tho I'll go out on a limb and state that maybe he feels an affinity
for BSDM (Foppl, all of GR, the Marquis de Sod, that nutty couple, the
Leptons in M&D, Dally with a strap on, usw)--there's more to his use
than a simple metaphor for power relations, no?

George in Yellow Submarine:  "let me peruse it"
Rich

On 7/31/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2009, at 8:28 AM, Henry Musikar wrote:
>
>> Could Pynchon's books be the product of an autodidact (such as I)?
>
> Good question. Some stuff you only get a chance to peer into by
> actually doing it. The author in question is well aware of that. One
> wonders what sorts of experiences the author had in the Navy and at
> Boeing, what sorts of physical materials he handled, how much of the
> whale he touched and smelled and cut up. Mind you, Pynchon's knowledge
> of science may not be as great as his knowledge of the subjunctive
> mood, but he knows enough to see processes that go on all the time
> that other people simply don't see—like Inherent Vice.
>