_V._: Inconclusive Unscientific Postscript

[MalignD at aol.com]

Steven Moore has an article in _Pynchon Notes_ 11 entitled "'Parallel, Not
Series': Thomas Pynchon and William Gaddis" which picks up on the issues
Alan raises here. ... etc.

While I feel officially obliged to the man each at his word, I've always 
found it privately unbelievable that Gaddis never read Ulysses.  

I find the image of Pynchon reading Gaddis in the privacy of his privvy and 
Gaddis likewise, each throwing the read pages down the toilet as he went 
along, more creditable than the idea that each was not interested enough in 
the other to read him.

They are a very interesting and, chronologically, unlikely pair and, in that 
the comparisons seem unavoidable, I think they will be increasingly viewed as 
such--i.e., paired--with time.

Fischer and Kasparov.