Re: There are no other contemporary novelists whose works
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11 Jul 2022, 00:13
There are no other contemporary novelists whose works resemble those of Thomas Pynchon, but his appeal rests on more than the (i) _________ displayed in his work. In an age when novelists largely limit their observations to lightweight banter about sexuality, Pynchon still offers (ii) _________ commentary about human nature.
i. From the beginning sentence, something is 'unique' here,
ii. we are not sure what it can be that should be 'more than the SOMETHING displayed may be common thing
iii. In other works, we are finding something common/lightweight, Pynchon offers something COMPLEX, (opposite of lightweight), it cannot be insipid = weak, it cannot be enigmatic = complex, difficult to understand (out of context), so trenchant which is deep seems correct.
iv. In the first gap, something should be UNIQUE, the patrimony, related to father, orthodoxy = traditional seems inappropriate, so the eccentricity seems correct here.