Young P's Prose & the golden screw to turn the time in the Stencil chapters

[rich]

pbly Pynchon's biggest leap forward from V to GR--beyond simple
improvement; he really went beyond the pale to create quite a book. By
all rights M&D should've been is his old man book and fine coda. alas
not to be

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:42 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right!  V was a milestone in literature when it appeared.  Like GR
> which followed, there was nothing quite like it anywhere.  Compared to
> GR, it is immature, but that could be said about everything after GR
> as well.
>
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 8:30 AM, redcomrad <redcomrad at zoho.com> wrote:
>> Kind tired of this Robin deflated crap about young P's poor prose. What a
>> bunch of stupidity. Are there weak spots. Yes. Are there scenes the author
>> reads without blushing? Some. Is the book poorly composed? Hell no.
>