Tom Le Clair's review

[Mark Kohut]

All reading of literature is or should be personal.
And infused with one’s personally human.

That five decade stuff is like people who tell you they must be right
because they’ve been thinking about it so long. Or they have a PH D.  A
soft intimidation. And/or Tom might be feeling otiose after all these
years. I remember and liked and learned from him so he may be right.

But I don’t care.



On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM Michael Lee Bailey via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

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> “With me, Pynchon is personal.  I’ve been reading him for more than five
> decades….”
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> Yada yada yada
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> “…his ninth novel.  Maybe he just wanted to have some fun in what may be
> his final book.  But he wasn’t free for fun.”
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> (Quelle Douche comment)
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> *”Tom LeClair is …”
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> …forgetting what Gaddis said in re  his critics & the importance of what
> one brings to a reading?
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