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[Sanjay Krishnaswamy]

>Hmmm. Does the list's willingness to abbreviate Wallace's name (as we
>don't Gaddis's or DeLillo's, for example) indicate that he has
>accomplished his clandestine mission of ingratiating himself amongst us as
>a Pynchon wannabe, a half-assed doppelganger? Horrors! I agree with Max.
>This must be stopped.
>
We can't abbreviate Gaddis, because of Gass.  Can't even get real close
(probably the closest would be, like, "Wm Gds" but hey, that's a lot of
supporting characters and one "d" playing the lead) -- just one of those
things.  
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