in Which V. is mentioned. as original.

[rich]

all i would claim is that GR belongs to the creative thrust that began with
V. and ended with M&D. there are some bits in AtD worthy but the rest imho
is fairly disposable

rich

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> but no matter what one thinks of some of the later books,
> Gravity's Rainbow HAS TO BE SEEN as, among much newness,
> V. perfected, no?
>
> Gravity's Rainbow is V. squared.
>
> and, didn't Pynchon avoid Parks' basic criticism by writing
> SO MANY DIFFERENT new books....
>
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 9:34 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > w/r/t to Pynchon I think there's some merit to that criticism
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> self-derivative, repetitive,
> >> in some way inferior to the first bursts of the writer's vision.
> >>
> >
>
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