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

[Mark Kohut]

"Trust the Tale, not the Teller."----D. H. Lawrence. 

When the wrote the Slow Learner intro, TRP had GR behind him and a lot of M & D 
written fer sure.
I, with some circumstantial evidence, think he also had a lot of AtD 
written.     


DAMN HIGH MASTERPIECE STANDARDS, so maybe, except for his most original stories 
full of life-----
which (as character, sensation, dialogue NOT IDEAS) his intro stated he was now 
working hardest on----

perhaps we can see why he so thoroughly dissed other early work, including (much 
of ) V. and about
all of C of L49.......................

I think he was at least wrong about L49.....(not a courageous position since we 
and so many still like it
a Lot a lot)..........and a little hard on V. ...........which still has 
original, alive stuff........

"'Vision was the last to go.....the difference between the eye that receives and 
the eye that reflects"

Are those words also about.................the artist, the writer? the one with 
a 'vision'---or not?


 


----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Fri, August 27, 2010 11:48:22 AM
Subject: Re: Meet the New Boss (Pynchon's THEY or The Firm is Dead)

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?