coover, barth, pynchon, UChicago?

[MalignD at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/1/2001 7:08:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
chicagoist at hotmail.com writes:

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 I really loved what you guys did for Barth Vs. Pynchon. I am in the 
 precarious early stages of preparing for my BA paper, and listening to you 
 guys is really helping me go in an interesting direction.
 
 Ok, whatchya guys think of Coover? his experimentation and innovation with 
 respect to pynchon? I think coover disturbs more, a kind of shock-rock 
 thing, while pychon is slightly more subtle (vrai?).
 
 Another thing, Barth and coover and in the acadamey, does this put them in 
 odds with Pynchon? Why are more and more writers this  century working/have 
 worked in acadamia? Nabokov, Joyce, Coover, Barth, Eliot, etc. have patrons 
 of high obscure art shifted from wealthy old women to quadrangles demanding 
 a writer strut his stuff around campus?
 
 Anyone here goes or went to U of Chicago? Jus' wonderin, thought I overheard 
 someone talking about this list.
 
                  Saud, >>

Would you like someone to proof the thing when you're done, Saud?