Descriptive vs Prescriptive

[Mark Kohut]

Joseph Tracy:
"I have a hard time seeing Pychon as a rationalist unless you would
describe ethical consistency as a form of rationalism, but again P is
always more descriptive than prescriptive, his ethics revealed mostly
through where he points his interest."

Seems right to me, if "pointing his interests' also contains those encoded
positive tropes and themes
that we can also refer to as his 'vision".

Ms. Sontag cringes otherwise.

*The Paris Review (@parisreview
<https://twitter.com/parisreview?refsrc=email&s=11>)*

6/20/16, 8:05 PM
<https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/745044855055912960?refsrc=email&s=11>
“The prescriptive voice rather makes me cringe.” —Susan Sontag
bit.ly/1vnSv44 <https://t.co/5OZdFlCPgE>
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