Pynchon's reply

[David Morris]

I'm sure you know that this ian't really about Hollander.  It's (as
usual) all about you, Hollanders correspondent.

Meanwhile Pynchon's answer to Hollander is just full of it:  "Plot and
character come first, just like with most other folk's stuff, and the
heavy thotz and capitalized references and shit are in there to
advance action, set scenes, fill in characters and so forth, and the
less of it I have to do, the better for me cause I'm lazy."  And so is
his SL intro ""The story is a fine example of a procedural error
beginning writers are always being cautioned against. It is simply
wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent,
and then try to force characters and events to conform to it."

So I guess in this case I side w/ Hollander.

David Morris


Meanwhile, as I've already said, Pynchon's answer to Hollander, in
which he states, "
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe he's seeking the meta-solution
>> Kicking over the chessboard
>> Killing the the referee
>
> So, you 'n' Robt. and, hey, where's Morris? intent on setting off another round of Hollander bashing?