Someone (else) speak on Inherent Vice..?

[Mark Kohut]

making the case I've made, and others, has also been done during the read.

>From sportello, through TRP's trope of detective as discoverer of meaning, and themes--most nakedly, Lew B in AtD or Oedipa--- through so many of those embodied and alluded-to themes. 

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--- On Tue, 1/5/10, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Someone (else) speak on Inherent Vice..?
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 10:59 PM
> It's been done. It's easy enough to
> look up. But the point remains
> that you all have not been able to provide any text
> evidence for the
> claim that the author has written a text that reflects or
> expounds or
> in any way truly shines a light on his project as author.
> IV is an
> abortion when set next to AGTD and GR. It really has little
> in the way
> of enhancing or informing our reading of his major works. I
> would add
> that it is far less useful than the slow learners of the
> essays. As a
> work of art, it fails. As a window or peek into the
> author's creative
> process or mind when he composed other works or as an
> introduction to
> his works and his contribution to literature, its nearly a
> blind spot,
> merely a commercial we sit and watch.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Robin Landseadel
> <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> > On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:54 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
> >
> >> In V., GR, M&D, and AGTD, the author
> explicitly tussles with
> >> narratorial authority. This is to be expected
> since it is a key
> >> element of the American Romance. I can provide
> several much discussed
> >> examples from each of these texts.
> >
> > Ok, do it.
> >
>