The Marraige of Maule & Pyncheon (Pynchon's mesmeric process)

[rich]

I just don't get wood

I do get lady sonia

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Dave Williams <daveuwilliams at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I like Wood; I think he is the best young hot shot critic around. I pick on him not because I think anyone who criticizes P must be misreading him, but because his criticisms are so ignorant of American Fiction. In his fabulous book, _How Fiction Works_, Wood proves that he is head and shoulders above the maddening crowd of young hot shots. The little book is a masterpiece. But I like the old, kranky and crotchety William Howard Gass's -finding a form_ even more. Two essays worth reading are (we mentioned this one a while back---))))((((, "the vicissitudes of the avant garde" and "the baby of the Botticelli."
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> --- On Sat, 9/4/10, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: The Marraige of Maule & Pyncheon (Pynchon's mesmeric process)
>> To: "Dave Williams" <daveuwilliams at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Date: Saturday, September 4, 2010, 4:16 PM
>> Once again, re Wood on Pynchon:
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>> His "politics" are simply, NOT, 'explicit"..as Wood might
>> have come to realize
>> in his review of Against the Day.
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>> (Which he sez is NOT Moby Dick-like [no whale])
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>> Second: he has simply not read Pynchon (deeply) enough if
>> he thinks his
>> ambiguous [see Empson] referents
>> point nowhere like a severed arm.....
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>> The real world is nodded at everywhere in Pynchon.
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