slaggin' pynchon pre-Nobel

[s~Z]

They're going to give it to Gaddis on the release date of his final novel.

Just read a review in the Village Voice with a nice paragraph:

"Agape rolls to a stop with a piercing sense of time running out-an
emotional look backward, across the years and the thousands of pages, 'at
the works of arrogant youth and the book I wrote then, my first book.' Call
it The Recognitions, which bore on its title page the alchemical ouroboros,
the serpent devouring its own tail. A breathless epilogue to an immense body
of work, an acid tirade all too human with sentiment, Agape Agape could not
have cut a more affecting path back to the source, a nearly 50-year course
that affirms the ideal of the opus alchymicum, the work as self-generating
recirculation. The Gaddis canon has gold, not paper, at its heart."
http://www.villagevoice.com/vls/178/park.shtml