Critical Thinking

[alice wellintown]

But the joy, or whatever it is that novelists experience when they
produce a wonder, a work of art, a child that is worthy...

And surely, even for Pynchon, who, we can only assume,  has little of
the pain, the suffering, the poverty, of poets,

and, who knows....but ... I am reminded of Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee
Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company, and the prelude about the wife
of the poet, how she stands by her author, and how he, while
constructing an ambitious, ourageous, maganificent work of art, is
comforted by her...

and, who knows but what compromises may be made in marraiges that are
also business arrangements

and, who knows, but when the business involved art....

well, who knows if Pynchon even read The Recognitions or not, but

he did the retro-marketing beach novel deal.

He will make what he wants.

And, if he does not, well, who wants what he makes but those who would
make him a forger and a fake.

An artist, a great artist like Pynchon does not need us to tell him
how to tone it up or tone it down. The command he has of tone is rare;
his ability to parody, to play off conventions and reader
expectations, wonderful. To give us a GR part II would weaken both
efforts.

Why would Pynchon write in an easy style? WQhy woud we want him to?
Should Faulkner come back from the dead would we hope hemight write an
easy-listening novel?