Pastiche

[Joe Varo]

On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, lucifer Mixmaster Remailer wrote:

>                 Measure For Measure
> 
>                 By Michael Dirda
> 
>                 Sunday, April 27 1997; Page X01
>                 The Washington Post
> 
>                 MASON & DIXON
> 
>                 By Thomas Pynchon
> 
>                 Henry Holt. 773 pp. $27.50
> 
> [...]
>                 Though daunting in appearance -- the text is stippled with
>                 capitalized nouns and strange words -- the novel is in fact
>                 fairly accessible and exceptionally funny, ever the saving
>                 grace of big demanding novels. Pynchon's humor takes many
>                 forms: puns, anachronisms, mimicry, in-house jokes,
>                 pastiche.
>                 ^^^^^^^^
> [...]

Wasn't there, a month or so ago, a big debate about the use of the term
"pastiche"?

Joe