P defends V. ...

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 29, 2010, at 1:40 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> That's the Royal Tee  Ay  Peee.
>
> Terri Pain in the Ass.
>
> But don't give up, Robin, while you'll never convince us that Lot49 is
> not what its author sez about it, or that VL, coming more than a
> decade after GR, was not the literary disappointment of the century,
> or that IV is more than a few yellow corns on the log, or that the
> Introduction to SL, another hasty and sloppy project to make money is
> not a low point in the author's career, unless we omit that rediculous
> stunt with the bag in the Simpsons, we still like that you try hard.

But of course Pynchon's ascension to the status of a "Simpsons"  
character represents the summit of his career!

It's like that old joke about "God, make my one hand like the other."

Thomas Pynchon finally becomes the cartoon he always wanted to be.