on money (in the abstract)

[Mark Kohut]

From: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: on money (in the abstract)


maybe it will come 'round on your guitar again, Alice....

2011/11/25 alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>:
>> Alice, you seem to be a little unfamiliar with Pynchon. I suggest that you
>> start with Inherent Vice and among other things note the oligarch and the
>> remarks make by the Jefferson medallion from the restaurant wall.
>
> A work that failed to make us think or laugh.
>
>
>
>  With respect to advancing technology, you may enjoy the progress in AtD of
>> ever-increasing surveillance and ever more efficient means of humans killing
>> each other.
>
> Do people read Pynchon to enjoy these ideas. Jeeez, I thought he was a
> bit tougher going. Maybe you're right, I'm not familiar with the
> author you call Pynchon.
>



> A work that failed to make us think or laugh.

Who is "us", Alice? Perhaps no pluralis modestiae, coming from you.
Majestatis? More likely. Definitely not you and me.

I don't know, how old you are, but perhaps there is time enough for
you to look back, ten, twenty  years from now, on all that you said
and wrote about Inherent Vice and then, finally, think twice. You
sound like a disappointed lover.

About 30 years ago I wrote that I couldn't imagine Pynchon writing
another novel after Gravity's Rainbow. At least no better novel. I
still think I was right, but I cannot tell you how glad I am that he
wrote IV. It made me think and laugh. But then, I'm easily amused.
Sometimes I find myself laughing at your mails.




Seconded.
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