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GSnodd at aol.com GSnodd at aol.com
Mon Jan 15 08:18:18 CST 1996


Hello folks....

In a message dated 96-01-14 16:21:05 EST, Stolz writes:

>Pynchon's writing has one enormous pop-cultural hole in it:
>I vcan find no references to professional sports.  This may make
>him unique among American writers

No sports per se, but sportscaster Musburger is mentioned.....Even so, what
better way to disguise oneself?  Perhaps he's a rabid sports fan, and
unwilling to divulge that one very telling detail, even in his fiction.

Perhaps John Madden is actually the man. (???!!!)

Cheers~!

William Miller




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