Pynchon/Dickens

[Rick Vosper]

>Does this comparison make sense to any one? Does any one know of any work
>done on this topic? Pynchon has his Dickensian names, coincidences. But
>what about reversing the influence and reading Dickens as Pynchonian?
>Please respond, even it it's to say no way.

Reversing the influence, eh? Sounds interesting. Or even ultraparadoxical. 
But merely *reading* Dickens in Pynchonian terms stops short of a genuine 
Pynchonian interpretation.

I suggest we consider the works of Charlie D. as *influenced* by Pynchon 
(gratuitous metaphor about The Rocket /Slothrop's erections helpfully 
completed here for those who didn't get it the first time).

Yeah, What then?

<gr>

Rick