Gaddis

[Alan Westrope]

On Thu, 15 May 97, andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:

>Gary L. Thompson writes:
>>Add to this _JR_ ('71, I think), . . .

>1976 actually. Important because it post-dates GR which means that
>deliberate intertextual references between Gaddis and Pynchon's early
>novels may occur in both directions. I mention this because JR
>contains a key passage on entropy which, while more than appropriate
>in context (it's a major theme in JR) also may be a deliberate nod in
>the direction of Pynchon. Not that the nod is necessarily intended to
>suggest any alignment of interest or outlook. I suspect Gaddis used
>the term `entropy' as a joke to wind up academics and reviewers.

Another nod may be the title of Gaddis' memoir about his sojourn in
Panama's Canal Zone during the 1940's, which appeared in the New York
Times for March 13, 1978:  "In the Zone."

-- 
Alan Westrope     PGP public key:  http://www.crl.com/~awestrop

PGP 0xB8359639:   D6 89 74 03 77 C8 2D 43   7C CA 6D 57 29 25 69 23