Recluses

[David Morris]

All one has to do is mix the words "automaton" and "recluse" and up pops the 
name "Pynchon."  Not that there's any real point, except literary 
name-dropping.

>From: Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>
>
>Saw a reference to Pynchon in the current New York  Review of Books
>which I don't quite GET.
>
>"When one well-placed prop called Father Francis died, bringing an end to 
>the dark talk of death and eternity with which visitors to Hawkstone, in 
>Shropshire, could be entertained, he was replaced for a while (like 
>something from Pynchon's Mason & Dixon) by an automaton.

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