Re: IVIV: chapter seven—Eel Trovatore

[Mark Kohut]

Well, OK.....

my calling her 'verbally snappy' was just to describe what was on the page, as we encountered her, not to evaluate it..........certainly not to
overpraise what seems as minor as a hiccup or something.

You and others don't think it works. You may be right. I can't see it as much of anything but a maybe-failed bit of transition and a joke about a fad food restaurant---I still cannot believe the pizza topping joke from earlier except as straining hyperbole---but I've been called too earnest before.  

--- On Wed, 9/23/09, Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net> wrote:

> From: Ray Easton <kraimie at kraimie.net>
> Subject: Re: IVIV: chapter seven—Eel Trovatore
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 11:22 AM
> Mark Kohut wrote:
> > hey, she IS a verbally snappy waitress putting down
> just about All the food? 
> 
> Well, no, she is not.  She clearly is *supposed* to be
> such, but she is not.  And that's one the reasons that
> this is bad writing.
> 
> Ray
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