IVIV and so forth

[Mark Kohut]

Rich, always true if one takes the totality of all our plist stuff, yes?
(there is much more from us than could be in any of the books; much semi-cancels other obs, etc. Much is admitted deep background)

And, yes, particularly true of this lighter one compared to most. BUT, a writer still sees thru his vision, his tropes, his predilictions. And, he still writes the overlay way for all we haven't learned otherwise, right?

The first good longer essay on IV will find tropes and connections, yet not go too far.......and judge it right. IMHO>

--- On Mon, 9/21/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: IVIV and so forth
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 12:26 PM
> not sure there's much to deconstruct
> for such a straight forward novel, frankly
> think there's more work going on on our side than what the
> author put
> into on his
> 
> rich
> 
> 
> On 9/21/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Rich,
> >
> > Here's 'where I come from". I liked it more than you
> or many others did, but
> > it IS minor if it works.  And I admit I may like
> it because it is P more
> > than it merits.
> >
> > However, even bad books can be, what, deconstructed?,
> annotated. Lit history
> > is full of layered bad books that have not survived
> the cut.
>