Reviving the 'Against Interpretation; thread which I can't find...

[Mark Kohut]

Looked at from the 'erotics of art' ideal Ms Sontag spoke of-----

Inherent Vice IS THAT, so to speak almost literally. All the sex and all
the sparkling surface prose......

A...and, it now occurs to me, as so often Mr Pynchon might be seen as trying to overcome Ms. sontag's duality--as so many--as he strives here and in ALL his works (?) for that lyrical surface beauty AND resonant layers of meaning (most of the time)...