Bill Gray & Pynchon

[Cjhurtt6 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/14/99 10:00:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net writes:

<<  Wood fails to understand
 what the hell is happening in American Fiction today, he
 gripes, snarls, whimpers and attacks the postmodern author,
 often confuses authors and characters, fiction and history,
 comedy and irony, realism and the use of images, and while
 he laments the loss of Jane Austen's Heroic Consciousness
 and Herman Melville's eloquence, he fails to appreciate both
 Austen's philosophical foundations and Herman Melville's
 metaphorical quests for a "silent god."  >>
so wait, this wood guy thinks writers should embody austen and melville? hmmm 
can't wait to read that 900 page novel about manners and customs of victorian 
era england. oh mummy could we read that one? mummy?!?!? mummy?!?!?!