What does Pynchon think about Lot 49?

[Monte Davis]

I don't believe TRP is pulling your leg at all in crediting Le Carre with
"upping the ante." The latter does layered, ironic narrative tricks with
knowledge-foreshadowed, knowledge-rejected, knowledge-dissembled,
knowledge-the-Marlovian-narrator-just-got, etc, that are real technical
advances on, say, _What Maisie Knew_  or _The Good Soldier_.

Maybe I shouldn't say "tricks," because they can carry tremendous moral
weight (the last hours of _The Honourable Schoolboy_ blow me away every
time).

I take this homage at face value: TRP saying "I've picked up some valuable
chops from JLC since I wrote this early stuff."