aw. Re: Where did ...

[Michael Bailey]

 that isn't how it seems to me at all

just keeps gettin' better

more satisfying to read.  more message-fraught.

yet there is some naysaying.  how can I dispute that?

it's hard to go point for point because the expressed negative opinions,
and, shucks, my own positive ones, are either impressionistic rather than
rigorous, or depend on standards on which there isn't unanimity.

To do this right, I would first have to think that my perceptions are worth
anyone else's attention - then would have to organize them w/r/t Pynchon's
work - then would have to erect a schema by the landmarks and lights of
which it's as clear that the latter works are also worthy of public
appreciation as it is in my private appreciation of them.

Also have to do it briefly and wittily so as not to take too much time away
from reading novels.

I'll get right on that!

But seriously, what if Pynchon reads the list?  Wouldn't his feelings be
hurt?  I'm fond of the guy, aren't you?  Even if everything after,
say, Mortality and Mercy, is schlock (and it's *so* not, no matter where you
draw the line!), the man's got to make a living!

rich wrote:

> when you've sunk yr soul deep and emerged to tell the tale, to
> encompass and enlighten and make the strange not less strange but
> clearer in some paradoxical way, well, it would be wise to realize the
> dangers of the revisit, for only the shell remains and hard as you try
> that's what you'll give birth to, a soulless hollow authentic
> hyper-strained shell--tom's been trying too hard lately and it sadly
> shows in this artful era of the hyper-authentic with no soul. he's
> been there, he should know better, better to have M&D been his last
> book
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:35 AM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > .then Pynchon was gone to write VL and the new wave, a
> > superposition of women authors and non DWM authors hit the colleges
> > and book shores. We recall that strange mixture of excitement and
> > disappointed when Tom Pynchon, like some, I'm Big in Japan Dylan, went
> > Japanese electric landy land POLITICAL. Keep it in the characters,
> > man. But Tom, once so much older than, although Grover had his
> > politics, was younger than that now. His wife made him do it. He would
> > introduce his Cornell collection of juvenailia with a screed,
> > defending the poor and powerless masses, the working man's dead would
> > haunt romances hereafter. He sold out on IV, a movire that fears and
> > loathes its own trippings down the burnt out alleys of memories where
> > fog from the faded pages of hard boiled bitch goddesses wrestle with
> > the buxom best sellers, but finished his USA, his American series.
> > And, I thinbk, it is done.
> >
>
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