Re: Pynchon -Reply


Subject: Re: Pynchon -Reply
From: David L. White (d-white@nwu.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 03 1997 - 17:07:20 GMT


Oops. I sure as hell didn't mean to imply that at all. There are plenty
of "great" authors that I haven't read. Anyone examining my bookshelf
would see Salinger, Tama Janowitz, Jennifer Belle, James Ellroy, Michael
Moore, Al Franken, Dennis Miller, Robert Crumb, Stan Lee, a biography of Ed
Wood, The Horror Movie Encyclopedia, The films of Dario Argento, ...

You get the picture. Far be it from me to ever pontificate about what is,
or isn't, great "art". I'm an actor/director in Chicago, for God's sake,
and that kind of hyper-critical, pompous, bullshit spreads like a brush
fire out here. It just kind of bothers me whenever anyone makes a blanket
statement about a group of people who enjoy a certain artist whether it's
Pynchon or Stephen King.

I get all kinds of flack from my peers for reading all sorts of high brow
"symbolism" into old B-movies and such. My point of view is that anyone
who chooses an artistic medium for their expression, deserves to be taken
seriously. Whether or not I connect or respond to it is another issue
altogether.

Phew.

Dave

At 12:14 PM 6/3/97 -0600, you wrote:
>lisa et al,
>just for fun mind you but...if you don't like a "great" author does it mean
>you are stupid? I have never been able to enjoy Hemingway, am I just to dumb
>or do I have a mind of my own or what?
>Patti
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