Kai, Do you know this girl?

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
To: <paul.mackin at verizon.net>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: Kai, Do you know this girl?


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> >From: "Paul Mackin" <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
> >But I really think Pynchon is as good a prepartion for Brown as Brown is
> >for Pynchon.
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> And Dick & Jane, but N.O.Brown seems to me a very direct source of
Pynchon's
> iconography/mythology, if only because he distills so much of all cultural
> metaphors.  But, yes, Pynchon can be readily read without a source-book.
He
> creates puzzles with internal clues.

Yes, this latter is certainly my impression also. And you may well be
correct about Brown as well. I was trying to make a general point. Not too
strongly and not too weakly.
                P.
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