_V._: Inconclusive Unscientific Postscript

[Dave Monroe]

Again, just checking in quickly.  William Gaddis can
be heard on that Thomas Pynchon--Eine Rasterfahndung
CD saying as much, as well as venturing that Pynchon
was not much familiar with his work ...

http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3934120652/booksnewasin/028-1067825-8626119

I'd also note similarities betwixt Pynchon's lists and
similar passages in, say, John Dos Passos' U.S.A.
Trilogy--and I'm positive I've seen similar passages
elsewhre as well--not to mention that cocktail party
down the Gatsby place in F. Scott Fitzgerald's little
novel.  Recall Pynchon and Farina dressing as FSF and
"Papa" hemingway, respectively ...

--- Alan Westrope <awestrop at dimensional.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 01:51:59PM +1000, jbor
> wrote:
> 
> Well, Gaddis was pretty adamant, both in the Moore
> PN article and the Paris Review interview, about
> having read *very* little, if any, of Pynchon, and
> about not having been influenced by him.  I don't
> have the quotes at hand, but I know they're at
> 
> http://www.komarios.net/gaddis/quotes.htm
> 
> Pynchon, as usual, doesn't seem to have much to
> say...:-)
> 
> While not meaning to discount the pertinence of
> Alan's comparison, I'd also add that that recourse
> to an almanac of events is not as uncommon as might
> be thought. Ayn Rand uses the same and similar
> tactics on a couple of occasions too, and there are
> other precedents I'm sure.

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