Character (WAS: COL49 - Chap 2: San Narciso as a circuit board)

[Michael Bailey]

, Dave Monroe  wrote:
 Ian Livingston wrote:
>
>> ... it is certainly also true that we can take TRP at his word:
>
> Pynchon is night unto Mucho Maassive in this regard, he at any rate
> undersells himself, though one might suggest he does this as a
> distraction, a feint.  It's not entirely implausible that he
> discourages Hollander in that letter precisely becaues The Dude may
> have come all too close to the truth of the matter, in some way or
> another, though that speculation is entirely my own ...
>

I'd say Mr Hollander presented stunningly good insights into the
historical-political facets of OBA's writing.
However, I tend to react as strongly - or more so - to other aspects
of these tragical-comical-historical-pastoral-poetical works, as
'twere





-- 
"For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as.
For the moment anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are." - GR, p
136