NP : Was " genres are literature too" thread

[alice wellintown]

And the abstract unifying agent in GR works because, though
implausible, it is convincing. So, Wood has no serious objection to
Pynchon's talking dogs or clocks, but to his rhetorical faliure, that
is, P fails not because verisimilitude is essential or even prefered,
but because P fails to convince us that all these characters and plots
are plausible under the unifying agent. The abstraction pulls the
characters on and off the stages like a puppet parade in a space
opera.