V-2nd - Chapter 10: Partridge in a Pear tree

[Robin Landseadel]

Swell.

I've got a great idea -- you take chapter 14.


On Nov 3, 2010, at 9:56 PM, alice wellintown wrote:

> Insisting that Pynchon is a rocket scientist is absurd; he isnot and
> never has been a rocket scientist. Moreover, he is, and has been since
> his stint at Boeing, a writer. In his essays Pynchon discusses the
> difficulties writers face. Like Emerson, the place of the writer in
> America haunts everyhing Pynchon writes. It's as if he is haunted by
> Bartleby. The rocket naming of parts (Henry Reed's poem) stuff is
> satitrized in the linguist in GR who, like the linguist in Melville;s
> Moby-Dick, tries to read the whale. I aslo would not characterize
> Pynchon as a hippie. In any event, to say that all hippes are
> romantics is like saying all Greeks are Platonists.