GR mention in William Gaddis's _Agap é Agape_

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    ... but once you've been stigmatized with the ultimate seal of
    mediocrity your obit will read Pulitzer Prize Novelist Dies at whatever
    because they're not advertising the winner no. No, like this whole
    plague of prizes wherever you look, it's the prizegivers promoting
    themselves, trying to rescue their thoroughly discredited profession of
    journalism ... good God how many Pulitzers are there? ... The books that
    are candidates are read by a jury whose decisions are passed up to the
    Olympian trustees with an eye to the multitude. We are thousands and
    they are millions, write the fiction they want or don't write at all,
    ruling out Pound's cry for the new, the challenging or what's labeled
    difficult, so when Gravity's Rainbow is being devoured by college youth
    everywhere and wins the National Book Award, its unanimous
    recommendation by the Pulitzer jury is overturned by the trustees for a
    double-talk spoof of academic vagaries by a bogus "Professor," to
    everyone's relief, and the author at peril escapes unblemished by the,
    no, no, no you can't depend on it. ...

                                                    (Viking, 2002, 60-1)

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