my favorite ever critique of Pynchon is that one guy claiming that his sympathy for the poor and the working class and their violence in the struggle against the bourgeoisie is childishly sentimental and evil for how he ignores morality in order to cheer on working class warfare like a loony toons cartoon. this is why i adore him
"This is a novel, after all, in which most of the heroes are proud terrorists [...] [H]is attitude towards violence is childishly sentimental, and ruthless in a way only possible to a writer whose imagination has never dwelt among actual human beings. Mr. Pynchon's heroes (the poor, the workers, Anarchists) assassinate and blow up his villains (mine owners, Pinkerton thugs, the bourgeoisie) with no more qualms than the Road Runner has about dropping an anvil on the Coyote."
