--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Jack Bludis <buildsnburns@...> wrote:
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> Patrick King said:
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> >>There's no "these guys" when you're talking about Thomas Pynchon. There's only one, and what he writes is literature by anyone's measure.<<
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> Come on Patrick ... "anyone's measure?"
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> Sounds like it comes from a fan rather than someone who has analyzed the thing.
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> Nothing is literature by "anyone's" measure. Even Shakespeare has his nay-sayers.
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All books are literature. Most of them are bad literature, but they are not something intrinsically different from good literature. Same as for music and the other arts.
mrt
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