Delillo, Pynchon, Eco, & Life Magazine Oct 1, 1951
Steven Maas (CUTR)
maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu
Wed Sep 17 07:57:37 CDT 1997
Peter Giordano wrote:
> [snip] Eco talks about the reader of THE
> THREE MUSKETEERS - Most readers will read that book with great pleasure and
> never know if it is historically accurate or not - But there is the reader
> who will get out a map of Paris as it was in the time of the story and
> trace the chartacters steps [snip]
And there's a third type--those who let others do the legwork and report
on it in the p-list!
I haven't read any Delillo. This new one sounds like a good starting
point, I'll have to pick it up.
Steve Maas
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