Wheat, chaff, stalks, seeds

[Robin Landseadel]

On Oct 25, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> Hey, I had a thought, Maybe Pynchon, now with the wisdom of age, has  
> concluded that it is really impossible to put a lot of moral  
> relevance into anything as imperfect as a novel,  so has this time  
> out refrained from all the deep layered stuff he normally unloads on  
> us.
>
> He may still be just as good a writer (I think so anyway) as he ever  
> was, which Inherent Vice plainly demonstrates.

Maybe he wanted a book that was accessible outside of the Academy [or  
cult].