P defends V. ...

[Mark Kohut]

No, I differ here...based on my judgment of some kind of common sensical meaning 
from a writer who, in his non-fction, is smartly
logical.......................

I think his remark that he "learned a thing or two"  IMPLIES (via usage) that he 
learned a thing or two in the doing--the writing---
of V.....which means thing one and thing two (as The Cat in the Hat is always 
saying) are IN the finished novel V....

But, love a show of hands here.....

P.S. I think he would have trashed V. about as hard as he trashes Lot 49 if he 
thought it was, in general, a failure.... 




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From: Natália Portinari <nmaranca at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, August 29, 2010 12:43:01 PM
Subject: Re: P defends V. ...



On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

             2b) Would be pretty peculiar, would it not, to say you had learned
>something from a failure---that wasn't
>shown anywhere in your work----that you had already forgotten by the time you
>wrote your next failure?
>
Saying he learned something out of it doesn't imply necessarily that V. is a 
failure or a success. He may be just referring to the experience of writing a 
novel.
-- 
Natália Maranca



      
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