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[rich]

pynchon's work used to be mysterious, man. it's a big loss being spoon-fed

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 2:19 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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