X is the Y of Z

[MASCARO at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU]

A long and breathless rejoinder by Steely to our soft-tongued hag seems to lead, like 
some conspiratorial juggernaut, to this nugget:

 >Stone's the Norman Mailer of the American cinema, and I, for one, am damn 
>glad he's made . . . 

Well, if that isn't enough to muse on (glad to see you haven't, Pynchon-like, lost 
your sense of irony, Steely) for several straight upsetting weeks . . .  
A-nd I think we've got our next topic, merry listers!!!:  we'll call it: X is the Y of Z, 
okay?

I'll start: 
VINELAND is the GREEN EGGS & HAM of 20th c. American fiction
Sokal is the Chomsky of Social Constructionism;
Steely is the Moe of pynchon-l .  .  . 

john (curly) m