like, Scooby, is this is like deja vu all under the rose again?

[Richard Ryan]

As is probably obviously from some of my other comments, I'm not a fan
of Chap 13 - which seems to me simultaneously pretentious AND vulgar,
mean-spirited AND naive - but is it "bad Pynchon"?  It strikes me a
being very much of a piece with the rest of book, if not the rest of
Pynchon - who seems to have little truck with normal standards of
literary valuation in any case.  The general silliness, the cartoonish
characters, the maladroit (but perhaps deliberate?) mishandling of BIG
IDEAS called out in CAPITAL LETTERS...if you don't get the shtick
here, how much of TRP's routine are you likely to get?

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> And there lies the problem. If one is looking for "Bad Pynchon", this must
> be the place. Continuing to read "V." leaves me in despair, nothing moreso
> than ""V." in Love." I wish someone else would take the chapter, I'm not
> even a little "in the spirit".
>
>  If Alice knows so much about the goddamn book, he should lead 'cause I
> don't want to.
> On Jan 7, 2011, at 3:40 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> Just axeing an cuz I'm whetted with breath baited for Robin's love
>> child slouching toward bedlam to be born again.
>
>
>



-- 
Richard Ryan
New York and the World
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The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty
of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises.
    -- Hannah Arendt