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

[David Morris]

Realism (which includes any resemblance to "real" dialogue) never has
been (ever) Pynchon's strength.  His strength has always been ideas,
concepts, constructs.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Take all the exception you like, there's things I really love in Pynchon's writing that don't really start flourishing until Vineland, dialog in particular.
>
> "Self-criticism's an amazing technique, it shouldn't work but it does."