Pynchon's negative thoughts on GR

[Michael Bailey]

> wasn't it in the letter to the Dude?
>

which I can't find online now, but there was a thread on this list
about it a couple years ago.  The full text was made available
somewhere at the time. I believe it sold at auction for a hefty price.
 In it he expresses disagreement with the notion that GR is
historically or scientifically rigorous.

Dave Monroe probably remembers.

I don't think Pynchon actually says anything to deny that it is a
fantastically great novel, just that people are giving him credit for
a hypertrophied science bone (or words to that effect) when his
outstanding parts are the artistic ones (which he doesn't actually
say, but I read it in his non-denial of that charge)
I said something like the above back then, but not nearly so succinctly.