Wheat, chaff, stalks, seeds

[Bekah]

I think (and it's total conjecture) that TPR was tired and ready to  
call it a career after AtD,  but he still had this odd, old idea of  
writing about SoCal in 1970,  the world he knew when life was  
young(er).   He had to get this one out of his head and onto paper  
before he died.   I think he's at peace with his oeuvre now and ready  
to be retired.

Bekah


On Oct 25, 2009, at 1:59 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> How do these conjectures account for _Against the Day_? Was the author
> without age or wisdom when  he wrote and published his last Romance?
> Also, if the novel is an imperfect form for conveying moral truths,
> the Romance is, while by design less perfect than the imperfect novel,
> a better form if one's objective is to convey the blackest truths in
> the darkest heart of Man. So, with _AtD_, P's unloadings of layered
> stuff doesn't break the reader-writer contract; we get what we
> deserve, if not exactly what we expect. As far as a book that appeals
> to a larger audience goes, it seems this is exactly what he tried to
> do. Let us pray he never attempts this trick again; it's dangerous.
> And, beside(s) the point to booot [sic].
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 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].
>>
>>
>

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