Pynchon's negative thoughts on GR

[David Morris]

Absolutely.  To say that GR is not historically rigorous is in no way
a negative statement, just an  accurate one.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> If one reads GR as a sort of "novelized" late sixties pop horror movie
> the notions of historical and scientific rigor (and the attendant
> critical questions that standards of scientific and historic rigor
> would impose on the reader) go out the window.  The possibility that
> the author himself might encourage just such a defenestration make it
> all the more attractive.  GR - perhaps like all Pynchon novels - is a
> dreamscape where the usual principles of historical and scientific
> practice get put into a very psychedelic blender.