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

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 27, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> On Aug 27, 2010, at 8:27 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> so why don't you connect the dots--

Here's one—page 19. TRP notes the "Bad Ear" on display in "Under the  
Rose", a piece that gets folded [with the same crappy ear] into "V."

But read the damn thing over, front to back—all the points Pynchon  
lays out concerning the writing skills of his Younger Self are on  
display in "V." And the Slow Learner intro ends with a tip of the  
Hatlo Hat to Henry Adams, so maybe a closer examination of the intro  
is in order, eh?