American Culture

[the Robot Vegetable]

On Sat, 25 May 1996, Wolfe, Skip wrote:

> Yes -- and in his excellent essay "Gravity's Encyclopedia" ( in _Mindful
> Pleasures_), Edward Mendelson identifies _GR_ as the international
> encyclopedic narrative (only one allowed per nation or culture, and _Moby
> Dick_ is already the USA's).

   Gaddis's _The Recognitions_ is characterized as an encyclopedic
novel.  Do you agree?  And, if so, what culture does it belong to?

   veg