_V._: Inconclusive Unscientific Postscript

[jbor]

on 7/30/01 4:05 AM, Alan Westrope at awestrop at dimensional.com 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...:-)

Thanks Alan. I had forgotten about those two comments, and that's a very
handy web page. The statements re. Pynchon are guarded, however, and
certainly respectful, and it's interesting that he passes on the information
that he understood Pynchon felt his work had not been influenced by Gaddis
either (a bit of tit for tat?): but I don't recall Pynchon ever stating
this, either first-hand or second-hand. They did share a literary agent I
believe, didn't they? I particularly like Gaddis's comment about capitalism,
particularly in respect to _JR_.

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