GR mention in William Gaddis's _Agap� Agape_

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Reads like much of WG, prentious irony at best, 

Best


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--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
>     ... 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)
> 
> best
> 


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