Pynchon's Modesty?

[Richard Romeo]

from Tim Park's article on Borges in recent NY Review of Books

"Yet, ironically, the intention so succinctly stated on the opening page of 
Selected  Non-Fictions remains a fair description of Borges’s own 
achievement in the  years to come, an achievement that is anything but 
unwitting. Intentionally he  played down intention. He accomplished what he 
set out to do. Even the man’s exemplary modesty, everywhere evident in these 
essays and unfailingly celebrated by those who knew him, was, if we can use 
the expression, an  “engaged” modesty, a pondered modesty, and very much 
part of a determined  and lifelong project of “self”-effacement."

Rich
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