Ch 6 of V-2 Eeeeeeraaaaah, wutsupdoc?

[Ian Livingston]

Oh, I agree with you completely, Robin, on that point. I by no means
intend to reduce your position in any way into any set of particulars.
But, I still love V. even after all the years and re-reads and
contemplation of the subjects that seem to be implied. Just because it
ain't the best novel he wrote, though, does not detract, in my mind,
from its importance. It is a great first novel by a great novelist. I
notice the blemishes, but I incline to see them as beauty marks.
Freckles can be so very appealing, after all.

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Aug 30, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:
>
>> Young Pynchon,
>> stoned or not, seems to have quite a lot going on in his mind at the
>> time of writing his first novel. He's no simpleton, writing the
>> easiest novel he can get away with publishing.
>
> And by no means am I suggesting that various psychotropic substances are the
> cause, the source for the author's fetid, fertile imagination. They were
> merely catalysts for the data dump that followed in their wake.
>
> What can I say? I like the later stuff more than the earlier stuff.
>



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