V. 101.....pure speculation; skip if you hate this stuff.........

[alice wellintown]

Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Of course, he is still learning (a lot) but no longer as a 'slow learner', self-effacingly. Many, most, almost all? of his lifelong tropes, themes,  > obsessions, styles are in V. as we will see, I think.  A quantum change from most of his shorter work...(of course, a large novel would be, but many writers'  first novels are like their earliest stories only fuller, richer, better if they work. TRPs novels move into the largest questions of the meaning of life, history, religion, etc.)

"Slow Learner", the phrase,  is clearly defined by P in his
Introduction to the short works under the Slow Learner title.
He says he was a slow learner;  He includes V. in his slow learning
period. Lot49 too. Sorry, but P is right about this.