Meet the New Boss (Pynchon's THEY or The Firm is Dead)

[alice wellintown]

>>
>> Could you connect these dots for me cause I don't read this in that
>> Introduction. I mean the specifics you note above about V. not the
>> general put down of his slow learning period.
>
> I've probably read the intro to Slow Learner more than any other piece of
> writing by the author. One doesn't have to break down the twenty-something
> pages of the intro into its individual sub-components to figure out that the
> Younger Pynchon, the one the Older Pynchon's  not so sure he wants a drink
> with, was the one who wrote "V." He makes specific references to a bad ear
> for dialog, a tendency to not really getting all that involved in his
> "Characters", that whole Baedeker thing, the over-reliance on surrealism, a
> tendency to over-conceptualize for its own sake. It's all there in the
> intro, it all applies to "V."

So you read the Introduction a bunch of times and you can't connect
the dots. You see, I've read it a bunch of times too and I don't think
you are reading it honestly. Not that you are dishonest, but your
reading is not faithful. So, I have the text, read it a bunch of
times, and you have the text, read it a bunch of times, and there is a
copy online, so why don't you connect the dots--cite the specific
passages from the text to support your claim.