Beyond the Rainbow

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

> I disagree with the idea that there is a Pynchon Two and a Pynchon
> One, the first before GR and the second after it.

Pynchon One would be --- before /and including/ GR.

(Since some do seem to get this wrong: GR would still be the book, if I 
could take only one novel of Pynchon to that desert island. It's just 
that I became interested in what the author himself might not liked 
about Gravity's Rainbow afterwards and what he, thus, changed in later 
books. By now this is  more interesting than to go on pleading for 
another or even an ÜberRainbow, don't you think?)

>   The Last work, a
> california veggie burger with pubic hair on the side and then stuck in
> your throat, is the least of his west coast melted sleeze on top of
> uncooked confetti.

I wonder whose pubic hair ... but yes, IV was one from the vault put 
into the microwave quick and
dirty ... I disagree on the other two: VL, my favourite from Pynchon 
Two, and CoL49 are imo great.


> But the romances, V. GR, M&D, AGTD, are all
> classics: books people don't read, exceprt maybe the best one if they
> can push through it.
>
>

Hard to argue against this. "The classics are classics because they are 
classics" (Niklas Luhmann).
However, the sound of V on the one and M&D on the other side seems to be 
coming from two different planets. One reason for this might be - think 
Cherrycoke and his listeners - Pynchon's experience of being a father. 
Well, I don't wanna overdo these biographical speculations and I stop here.




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