Pynchon-Tinasky

[Michel Ryckx]

Dave Monroe wrote:

> (...) But, again, I'm not partcularly concerned either way.  I'm more
> interested in the discussion itself, which has its productive
> byproducts.  Note, for example, that Charles Hollander's early essay
> on the subject does contain a rare cataloguing of Pynchon's stylistic
> idiosyncracies.  Does make one work on what specifically makes those
> Pynchonian texts Pynchonian, no? (...)

Exactly Dave.  It's like the 'Homeric question' where the authorship of
Iliad and Odysseia is being discussed, having as 'byproduct' an enormous
body of knowledge on the subjects discussed; the original questions
becoming irrelevant.  Mutatis mutandis, of course.

Kind regards,
Michel.