JS

[MalignD at aol.com]

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It isn't a matter of whether or not it pales.  If there are weaknesses, and I 
think there are, they're fair game for discussion.

<< On another subject, do I remember correctly that Malign was the one to 
point out  echoes of Dickens in the very early innings of the current GRGR? >>

I noted affinities between the beginnings of GR and Bleak House.  (Bleak 
House is also one of the novels Pynchon would have studied with Nabokov when 
the latter taught at Cornell, for whatever that may be worth.)