BE -- "death wish for the planet" why the internet?

[David Morris]

Well in ATD he had people playing anarchist golf, which is both didactic
and idiotic.

David Morris

On Friday, March 4, 2016, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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.
>>>
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
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