Tinasky/Wallace

[VISCONSI at humnet.ucla.edu]

Like Arturo Gonzalez, I am a new contributor to pynchon-l & must 
apologize for recapitulating old arguments about Wanda Tinasky....

As an occasional writer of fiction and an admirer of Pynchon I often 
find myself adopting his cadences, strategies, style, whatever.. in my 
own writing. 	I also am sympathetic to the political positions I 
perceive that Pynchon shares (left-populist, anti-corporate, 
environmental, etc). So, conceivably I could have written those letters 
(if I was a reader of the AVA) as could have probably anyone on this 
list. I may repoen an old argument here, but I think the hype about them 
is a symptom of an unhealthy industry- precisely what Pynchon probably 
dislikes literary critics for..

In regards to their Pynchonesque nature, could the author possibly 
be....David Foster Wallace?????

By the way I enjoyed the Broom of the System, but didn't think it was 
very Pynchonesque at all...reminded me more of Donald Barthelme...

Sorry for any redundancies.

Elliott Visconsi