Science Against the Day Labor

[Markekohut]

Nice argument, best made case I've read against the closeness....

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On Apr 16, 2013, at 5:05 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> that I strongly agree with Alice.
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> 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.
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>> That distance, not the readers, but the writers, serves Pynchon well. No?
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