Why Pynchon took the National Book Award (Plus Extra Bile!)

[mantaray2 at earthlink.net]

> I'll go farther.  I've long claimed that in a few decades Pynchon
>will be widely regarded as *The Big Deal* in American fiction for the
>entire second half of the 20th century.  And if I should live long enough
>for posterity to prove me wrong, I too will happily gum my shorts (if I
>own any by then) on Public Television.

No way. GR beats out M&D in any arena. Not a bad job (having two fot he
most important books of the 2nd half of a century) but it's still 2nd
class. Don't forget White Noise, which is fast appraoching canonization.


MantaRay