Eco v. Pynchon

[The Great Quail]

Mark wrights,

>Is 'Foucault's Pendulum' Eco's response to P's corpus?

To the best of my knowledge, Eco has never mentioned Pynchon to any 
degree that would indicate FP might be connected to Pynchon's 
writings. I would say that FP is a natural outgrowth of Eco's 
fascinations with semiotics, the nature of belief, global history, 
arcane histories, Borges, and writing really big books.

>Is 'Foucault's
>Pendulum' a jobation upon my faults as one of P's obsessive readers?
>Should I take it personally? (And isn't "jobation" a nifty word?)

Jobation, wow! I had to look that one up. It is a nifty word, yes.

--Q
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