SLSL: Herbert Gold/Nabokov

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Tue Nov 19 00:58:05 CST 2002


--- Dirk Zimmermann <pynchon at d1z1.de> wrote:
> * MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> [2002-11-18
> 22:28]:
> > <<I also remember reading somewhere that Nabokov's
> wife recalled Pynchon's
> > handwriting. >>
> 
> > I've read this also (that he wrote half
> script/half block letters).  But I 
> > also seem to recollect someone on this list,
> saying the story was false.  
> > Don't recall who or what source was cited ...
> 
> Michael Naumann (former editor of Pynchon) said,
> that Pynchon negates to
> met Nabokov or even took part of his lecture. 
> (Naumann seems to be a
> friend of Pynchon).
> 
> 
> Bye,
> 	Dirk


Who knows and who care? P doesn't write like N anyway.

No, he doesn't write like any LA writer I've read
either. Name one and make the argument! He writes like
sinclair lewis and hemingway on acid. 

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