Pynchon Parodies?

[Paul Mackin]

Alanballow at aol.com wrote:

does anybody else think that the Egyptian
> stuff in V might be a parody/tribute of Lawrence Durrell?

I reply:

	Remember being conscious of the marked similarities.
Virtually everyone reading V. would have read the A. Quartet
a few years earlier. Don't recall thinking parody was involved.
Tribute more likely. Durrell was the rage. Hardly remeber him
now. Been a long time.

			P.