P defends V. ...

[Mark Kohut]

Key text in historic literary meaning of romance:
The American novel and its tradition 






----- Original Message ----
From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sun, August 29, 2010 10:22:59 PM
Subject: Re: P defends V. ...

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"?