Vineland

[White, Rich]

Remember Borges in I guess it was Uqbar, Tlon, and Orbus Tertius talking 
about a form of literary criticism where you'd take books by different 
authors and (re)construct the hybrid writer?
Why trust anybody?  Can we not judge the work without caring who the author 
is?
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.*++From: owner-pynchon-l
.*++To: SY19058
.*++Cc: pynchon-l
.*++Subject: Re: Vineland
.*++Date: Tuesday, May 21, 1996 10:18AM
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.*++This may sound silly, but who cares!?
.*++I ve often wondered how can we be sure that Vineland was really written
.*++by Pynchon. Ok, I mean there are many similarities in style and all 
that,
.*++but I think everybody would agree that no matter how good a book 
Vineland
.*++is it is not as "dense" as V. or GR or even possibly CoL49. I feel that
.*++it wouldnt be very hard for a reasonably good writer (or a group of 
South
.*++american magical realists) to produce a forgery that can have the
.*++characteristics of Pynchon (it would have to be a major project of 
course
.*++but still not impossible). How can we be sure? Can we trust the editor?
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.*++basil
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.*++ps. thomas pynchon is carlos fuentes! ;)
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