intextuality

[Vaska]

Ted Samsel writes: 

[snip]
>I'm reading the second part of Vassily Aksomov's(sp) WINTER'S novel..
>a long Russian familial saga... one of the characters is Lavrentii
>Beria's (head of the CHEKA, and the NKVD, precursor to the KGB) finder
>of young women for Beria's delectation.... a bit less "nice" than
>Ike 'n' Elvis.... [snip]

For a hilarious combination of intertextual bravado writing and Pynchonian
breadth of reference, see Aksyonov's _The Island of Crimea_.  And try not to
butcher the man's name next time :)

Vaska