Science Against the Day Labor

[rich]

that I strongly agree with Alice.



On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:42 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Isn't it the distance of the author as well? In other words, the closer P
> gets to his own space and time the weaker his narratives, characters, prose
> style, themes ... his writing and story telling. So, Mondaugen's Story, and
> the SWA chapters are by far the best of his V. novel. It's not that the
> Benny in the Navy, out of the Navy, in NY chapters are not wonderful firts
> novel stories, but the SWA, and yhe Malta chapters are much better. CL49 is
> not great. It has been made into the cannonical cul-de-sac par excellence
> by the academy, but it is top heavy with fiction-making ideas and can't and
> won't hold up. GR, of course, is a materpiece. Not perfect, but in it the
> author hits a magical note and blows the roof off the theatre/theater.
>
> That distance, not the readers, but the writers, serves Pynchon well. No?
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