Pynchon's negative thoughts on GR

[Mark Kohut]

As P said about Ian & Sylvia's eternal love song, He is
always saying---see Slow Learner---that the stuff he uses 
in his books is ALWAYS for the reasons of his art in those
books........

Basic Lit 101 and we have to keep trying to read him with that in mind, imho.




----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, February 11, 2011 10:15:12 AM
Subject: Re: Pynchon's negative thoughts on GR

> 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.



 
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