slaggin' pynchon pre-Nobel

[jbor]

on 12/10/02 2:35 AM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

> I THINK I'm right about this, but ... well, took me a
> moment to realize that the Thomases weren't being
> quite idiomatic (which is hardly to say that they are
> thus idiotic) here.  We're reading "beyond our man's
> league" as if it's being said that DeLillo is better
> than, is "beyond" Pynchon, but I THINK what's intended
> here is that DeLillo isn't quite IN Pynchon's league.
> I THINK.  Let me know ...


The original statement came from Heikki, of course. And I was pretty sure he
was saying he thought that DeLillo was "better than" Pynchon too.

best


Heikki wrote:

> I took up DeLillo
> because he, arguably, operates in TRP's backyard
> but is way beyond our man's league.