I am really not trying to be argumentative, as I do not know enough to
argue.
In a course on modernist and post modernist novels this summer, I read _V_
to the best of my ability(which, I grant you, does not say much), and I did
not like it.
In your comment below, if I understand you, you seem to suggest that Pynchon
is trying to make a point.
What point or points do you think Pynchon is trying to make?
Michael Jeter, the over the hill graduate student, not the dead actor
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Patrick King <abrasax93@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> If you're interested in making a living making a point, you really don't
> need mass acceptance. If 1% of the population catches on, you'll be fine.
> Pynchon has held that 1% since 1955.
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> Patrick King
> --- On Sat, 8/8/09, Steve Novak <Cinefrog@comcast.net<Cinefrog%40comcast.net>>
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> From: Steve Novak <Cinefrog@comcast.net <Cinefrog%40comcast.net>>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Pynchon according to Washington Post
> To: "RARA-AVIS" <rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com<rara-avis-l%40yahoogroups.com>
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> Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 6:59 PM
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> It may be strange but understandable given the general critical
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> apparatus/premises in place both in the media and in academia...Generali
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> being what they are, this maybe a silly statement but...I find this
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> reluctance to accept him logical, if inexcusable. ..a bit like when you
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> mention Auster to crime stories critics or the literary media at large in
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> his own country...it takes years/decades for things to evolve in onešs own
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> Montois...
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> On 8/8/09 6:17 PM, "jacquesdebierue" <jacquesdebierue@ yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > I have to second this. Ever since I ran into a used copy of V., I became
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> > total fan of Pynchon. Why so much hostility has been heaped upon him is a
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> > mystery to me. The same goes for another favorite, the late William
> Gaddis.
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> > Sometimes I think that the critics are a bunch of unimaginative
> squares...
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> > They can't just laugh at the Rev. Cherrycoke, like they are supposed to
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> > instead, they have to go and talk about paranoia and the sublimatory
> dialogic
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> > of obfuscative meaning!
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> > I think Mason & Dixon ranks among the ten best American novels of the
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> > century. It's even better than Gravity's Rainbow.
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> > Why the hostility in his own country against a brilliant writer who has
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> > nothing to prove and who has stuck to his work without messing with
> anybody?
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> > It's very strange.
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> > mrt
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