Pynchon/Pyncheon

[Vaska]

At 12:24 PM 5/1/97 -0500, Jeffrey Meikle wrote:

>From romantic allegory to
>comically meaningful characters' names, from the weight of history to the
>distrust of technological progress, from psychological hauntings to the
>depths of the human heart, there's a lot of Hawthorne in Pynchon--thus, in
>a sense, Pynchon IS a Pyncheon.

I second this, heartily.  Adding: paranoia as a Puritan predicament...

Vaska