Pynchon-Tinasky

[MalignD at aol.com]

I haven't read the Tinaksy letters, but would suggest that in seeking clues 
and answers via style (dis)similarities, one might consider Hemingway's 
letters and the huge gap in style there between the austere control of the 
published prose and the informal, often ungrammatical, and misspelled 
letters.  

The letters are also, often, quite funny in a straightforward and nasty way, 
something absent in Hemingway's prose after The Torrents of Spring, just as 
often appalling in their near-pathological and raving viciousness (see 
particularly his comments about James Jones), a side of him unindulged in his 
prose. 

In short, the Tinaksy letters are no more likely to reveal than conceal 
traces of P's hand--style, opinion, attitudes--given that, if he did write 
them, no one on this list anyway has any idea what motivated him to do so.