Gaddis and Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

At 12:53 PM -0400 8/20/02, MalignD at aol.com wrote:
><<Just saying you have better
>taste than somebody else is no guarantee it's true. >>
>
>I didn't say I had better taste, did I.
>
>I do think that the formulation and conclusion that "no other writer comes
>close" to Pynchon is a pretty sorry return on so much time spent reading
>literature.
>

There's no accounting for taste, they say.  That goes for your taste, too.
Many critics of higher repute (we know their names, at lest, and can read
their works in order to evaluate their judgement) rank Pynchon at the top,
of course, and he's routinely short-listed for the Nobel Prize -- not that
their taste is necessarily "better" than anybody else's, but those of us
who rank Pynchon highly are not alone.