V.,wherefore such silence? Whither goest thou?

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 14:39:39 CST 2010


> I submit that I believe our author is a considerate one,
> that is, if a concept is memorably put forth, there may well be examples,
> and if incidents in the text are vivid they may well point to concepts...
> which may very well be the same concepts...
> now if I could only demonstrate that!

Perhaps a considerate author does not do what you expect, even prefers
not to. Pynchon is excellent exercise in negative capability.



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