Pynchon as historian? (was: meshugginah posts)

Jules Siegel jsiegel at mail.caribe.net.mx
Mon Jul 7 08:33:09 CDT 1997


At 11:33 PM 07/6/97 +0100, Eric Alan Weinstein <E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
>But he did posses great insight in a least a few areas, tremendous learning
>in a variety of disciplines, a unique sense of humour, and the ability to
>start and, eventually, finish complex fictions. I'm not trying to convince 
>you of my position---that Pynchon is one of the dozen great writers in any
>language of the last 50 years--- just that he may be a tad more wonderful
>than you are presently allowing for.

I'm allowing for it or I wouldn't be talking about him. 


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