The meaing of mathematics in Against the Day.....

[rich]

Pynchon is a great writer of prose; i'm just not sure whether I am as
enamored of his 'style', his world-view/politics as I once was but that's my
problem.



On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:25 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Pynchon is neither Jane Austin sitting in a drawing room hiding her
> manuscript (as his ex-friend JS argued here) nor Joseph Conrad on a
> journey into the heart of deepest Africa, but is closer to the poet
> whose influence is still anxiously present in his prose, T.S. Eliot.
> Pynchon, as he admits, and anyone willing to take his word for it
> can't fail to see he is telling the truth, is a writer. Sloth is his
> mortal and capital and cardinal sin. If this were not the case, he
> would not make a great writer of prose fiction; he would make an
> average retired science guy who likes to read.
>
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