P defends V. ...

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 29 16:35:59 CDT 2010


yeahp, me too, me too.......Robin and Natalie

The resonant richness..........the seven kinds of "ambiguity"............not 
hardly there ........(intentional)
(except in flashes and in the "development" of associations re his historical 
vision)



----- Original Message ----
From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Sun, August 29, 2010 5:28:01 PM
Subject: Re: P defends V. ...

On Aug 29, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Natália Portinari wrote:

> The language itself is explored very weakly in V.; the witty pynchonian humor 
>and parody aren't even close to the later books.

Thank you, I think you nailed it.

That's why I'm getting no payoff from this, my fourth, reading of "V."

It's not that I'm not trying to give the book a chance. It's that the book is 
not delivering, it's not really reading like a "Pynchon Novel.".


      



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