Fw: Groupbath of groupthink: VN & Pyncheon

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Reposted here from the Nabokov list:

In a message dated 7/23/1 6:37:05 PM, you wrote:

<<EDITOR's NOTE.  Susan Elizabeth Sweeney has done a paper on the VN-Pynchon

connection. I'm not sure it's out yet, but check the ZEMBLA bibliography.


----- Original Message -----

From: "Kris Majer" <stonk at friko3.onet.pl

I often wonder what would  happen if the geniuses of world literature 
submerged themselves in the groupbath of groupthink.


I remember reading / hearing somewhere once that Pynchon was not a writer,

but a group of writers. Not much proof for that, but the thesis hasn't

been disproved either. By the way, any information on the Nabokov - Pynchon 
nexus? So far I have found out that P was N's student and that Vera 
remembered him for randomly alternating between lowercas and uppercase 
letters. We also have the cryptic texts. But anything else? Regards,


Kris>>


I post this, don't endorse it.  It is daft, is it not, to think, facing a 
formidable body of work, (as some do regarding, e.g., Shakespeare and, above, 
Pynchon) that a group of writers is a more likely source than singular talent 
or genius.  

Brilliance by committee seems highly unlikely to me.  Additionally, speaking 
of brilliance, talent, genius--

saw, over the weekend, "A Kind of Alaska," "One for the Road," and "The 
Homecoming" at the Pinter festival in NYC.  Pinter himself on stage in "One 
for the Road."  

Sublime.  And no doubt, agree or disagree, how Harold would feel about Genoa 
...