Pynchon in Norton Anthology

[Todd Meigs]

 It's still there.  That's how I got hooked; trying to find something
 interesting to read in Freshman English 101.  I get a big kick out of
their
 description of Pynchon in the beginning of his section, and their
 insistence that GR, because of its sheer size and encyclopedic quality,
 might ultimately prove "static" (whatever that means).  I suppose one can
 forgive their glossing over of his accomplishments by thinking about how
 many people are exposed to Pynchon through their anthology...
 Todd Meigs
 "Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so
 quiet?"  -- Dylan
 
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> > From: still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made
> <traveler at afn.org>
> > To: Charles F. Albert <calbert at pop.tiac.net>
> > Cc: Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > Subject: Re: POMO rants (was dfw ... nobel specks)
> > Date: Friday, May 23, 1997 7:37 AM
> > 
> > On Thu, 22 May 1997, Charles F. Albert wrote:
> > > > Heck, I discovered Pynchon in a Norton Anthology...
> > > 
> > > Which one?
> > 
> > It was some edition or other of the modern American lit. anthology,
> > which I think had a painting of a lighthouse on the cover.  There was a
> > chapter or so of _COL49_ included somehowere in the late 20th c.
fiction
> > section.  It may or may not have been omitted from later editions...
> > 
> > Max
> > 
> >  M a x i m u s  D a v i d  C l a r k e | I'll have one brain on
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> >                  "Surrealist-At-Large" | toast, and juice.
> >                       traveler at afn.org | --Mark Ward
> >