Pynchon's sources

[Jorn Barger]

>   This relates to the general question of Pynchon's "secondariness" -
> it's very difficult to tell if TP knows the "real" London that's
> evoked in GR, and his German and Germany seems equally a "construct"
> from U.S. representations of them in TV and movies. How much does
> this matter, anyway?
>   Paul Delany

I'm reading Thomas Berger's "Crazy in Berlin", and its 1945-era Berlin
seems strikingly close to TP's... (Berger was really there, I assume.)

jorn