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[rich]

whatever the POV it doesnt work very well as written--Pynchon sets Maxine
up--we're supposed to believe she's whip smart and yet he gives her the
dumbest lines imaginable to prove a point. pynchon was never this
insufferably didactic before. it's lazy

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:01 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
> wrote:

> No, not a "mouthpiece." Ernie's position is presented as a legitimate
> point of view within the novel and not undermined by the narrator or the
> implicit author in any way. The legitimacy of his POV is further supported
> by the fact that the narrator makes Maxine appear foolish and naive in
> comparison.
>
> Am 03.03.2016 um 11:22 schrieb ish mailian:
>
> If, as you assert, Ernie is a mouthpiece for Pynchon, then
>> both are stuck in the Seventies.
>>
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