on 7/16/01 10:01 AM, Thomas Eckhardt at thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de wrote: > >> (In fact, although I think that Pynchon is by far >> the superior writer (...) > > Hmm, just wondering: Doesn't the hierarchy of authors you are setting up here > imply > a hierarchy of readers? Haha. Just imagine that "I think" in capital letters, I guess. best