P andVN

[calbert at hslboxmaster.com]

>You have to saturate yourself with English poetry
> in order to compose English prose.  You must know your tool.  You do
> not.  You cannot begin all over again with the Canterbury tales in
> comic-strip Englisyh ...  Suggestion:  Read:  Milton, Coleridge,
> Keats, Wordsworth.'"

an uninformed observation....

I've always found that Pynchon's prose reads like poetry, in the 
respect that it betrays an internal rhythm. By contrast, the much 
lauded beginning of UNDERWORLD, though admirable in may 
ways, is plauged by DeLillo's "unmetric" style.....reads a little like 
a bad pointillist.

Pale Fire (the poem) reads remarkably like prose (check it 
out)....and this is something I suspect Nabokov picked up from 
Wordsworth.


love,
cfa