P defends V. ...

Joseph Tracy brook7 at sover.net
Sun Aug 29 21:22:59 CDT 2010


It is as far as I can tell a rather lonely we, a kind of a solo we.   
I have never heard any critic use the term romance in the way alice  
does and I have no idea what he is talking about.  I think it is so  
unusual a usage as to constitute a kind of private language.
It is certainly not illuminating to me. What do you mean by calling a  
novel a romance?

  In a way, the competing interpretations  of Pynchon are like  
interpretations of the Bible.  I think this may actually be  
deliberate on Pynchon's part. Can any author invoke a world so large   
without creating true believers and heretics, sects and break away  
sects?  And isn't  the creator the biggest heretic of all, who must  
flout every rule that is made or bore the created  world and its  
visitors to death?

On Aug 29, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Robin Landseadel wrote:

> On Aug 29, 2010, at 1:16 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> . . . we, once again, fail to see what Robin sees between the
>> lines.
>
> Is that the Royal "We"?




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