Daffy Duck and the Upanishads

[Wolfe, Skip]

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Richard sez:

>>Somehting me and couple of writer friends were discussing over Guinness
>>earlier this week:  I made the claim that what makes Pynchon and writers
>>of that ilk so great are the pop culture references along with major so
>>called hi-brow stuff. . . . etc.

Do you think it's that the "pop" elements of our culture (in the U.S., at 
least, and increasingly in other western countries) are such a pervasive and 
influential part of our cultural climate that  serious writers writing about 
the current world would find them hard to ignore?

     Skip Wolfe
     crw4 at nip1.em.cdc.gov