TRP and Gore Vidal

[Paul J. Mackin]

On Wed, 11 Oct 1995 MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu quoted by a Gore
Vidal novel:

> 
> "Pynchon's lesser corrollary to the law of gravity [whereby] whenever a 
> spaceship (macro) is represented by an object (micro) on an EXACT chart 
> of where gravity insists it rest when not under propulsion, then MACRO 
> will move on its plane exactly as MICRO moves on its representational 
> plane."
> 
>   My question to the group is, do we 
> consider him a --serious--enough writer to --seriously--consider 
> questions of influence, shared or divergent aims/methods, etc. with 
> 
	Seems to me I have repeated heard (read) Vidal make disparaging
remarks about Pynchon-like novels. In my opinion the quoted passage
is meant to be a putdown.

				Paul