Hemingway and Pynchon

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 31 May 2000, J Suete wrote:

> but that's OK, these are wonderful!
> Gives me shivers this one and gets me thinking
> about how  Hemmingway and Pynchon are quite different
> as Paul notes (that testoserone or what have you), how that difference, in some regards is not shared by all of Pynchon's peers or generation or whatever (as Derek notes), and how the mordant irony of it all, the absurdity I think too, is common to both. 


Testosterone level could be a factor but once again our knowledge of
Pynchon is lacking. We have pictures of Roth's very male balding
configuration and hairy chest. Pretty much so with Hemingway also. Dunno
about Updike. Pretty wispy I'd guess. 

			P.