fusionanomaly

David Morris fqmorris at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 12 22:33:28 CST 2002


--- Cyrus <CyrusGeo at netscape.net> wrote:
> > http://fusionanomaly.net/nodebase.html
> 
>  From the above (very nice) site:
> 
> <<Pynchon (pîn´chen), Thomas Born 1937 American writer whose dark,
pessimistic novels of life in a technologically advanced society include
Gravity's Rainbow_ (1973).>>
> 
> I've heard this before. Isn't it a bit wide of the mark?

This is essentially the Reader's Digest synopsis.  I personally completely
disagree.  Are writers like Pynchon and Melville "pessimistic?"  Is that a
religious designation?

David Morris

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