V ch. 5 part 2 Imaginary Alligators, Real buckshot

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Think this is an excellent characterization of the book.  In writing V., he's learning his craft.  We're witnessing a birth here.

Laura

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>From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>

 As I said, not joking, P learned some bad shit out there on the guy-land and it
>took some time for him to work it out. TSI, his wonderful tale that
>sufferes from some surreal experiements and his still paternailistic
>and latent racist views and his misreading of Twain, is a giant step
>toward his mind lit up like tesla's tower and that tower of art with
>ohmmmmes and  watts, but until we get to GR, where Marvy, a southern
>pig tossed from a train by the african (american?) with long but not
>unlimted patience, we have a young author showing off and exposing his
>slow learnings about the complexity of this devine architecture, this
>mortal coil, this YOU Man. But, what saves the book, V., are several
>aming things. The first one is the stroke of genius that P had when he
>decided to read and re-read Henry Adams.