IVIV Hope Harlingen: ( spoilers)

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Joseph Tracy:

> I find tenderness in each novel, and it tells us something about  
> Pynchon's sympathies that is actually a classic ingredient of satire.  
> Satire is meaningless if we have no core sympathies against which the  
> stupidity, hypocrisy and self interest of the players allow us to  
> laugh and shudder.
> The fact that he pokes fun at almost everyone's human faults doesn't  
> change his sympathies which are clearly revealed in his essays and in  
> the characters in his fiction. 

Well said. Being unable or unwilling to see the tenderness in Pynchon's 
novels is not merely a matter of being a glass-is-only-half-full type of 
reader. It's more a matter of being a glass-is-fucking-broken-and-the-
shards-are-stuck-in-my-feet type of reader.
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