Redoing a post

[Mark Kohut]

I learned that twitter posts do not go through with the blue links that they have at twitter. So, one could not click on the post I sent from book blogger Maud Newton below. In which she quotes Devo
 
 
Devo’s Casale says “Whip It” lyrics were an attempt to do a Pynchon-style parody of Horatio Alger rhetoric: http://tinyurl.com/chabeq
 
Here is where she found what she said: Devo on trying to do a song parody ala the parodies in GR.
http://flavorwire.com/14378/exclusive-devos-jerry-casale-on-de-evolution-and-the-meaning-of-whip-it

This was writer Colson Whitehead's injoke response via twitter. I know from an interview somewhere that he said he was a Pynchon fan, although a year or year-and-a-half ago he had not yet started Against the Day. (Unlike Michael Chabon, who 
went on about it on radio around then at least) 

CW:  "So I was pre-conditioned to like Gravity's Rainbow? Well, there's goes that beloved personal origin myth".
 
 
This leads me to another favorite conversational observation. Despite many of the leading critics who find deep faults with
many of Pynchon's works, I love how many other writers regard him so highly......................
 
Real writers' judgments usually last longer than even the best critics.......