NPPF: JS re P & N
pynchonoid
pynchonoid at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 11 14:14:17 CDT 2003
No way to know if JS is reporting accurately, but some
of you may wish to use this as ammo in future P-list
wars of attrition:
[...] Jules Siegel, in his article for Playboy,
remembers Pynchon informing him that Nabokov's Russian
accent was so thick it was hard to understand anything
he said. Also, when asked about the complexity of V. ,
Pynchon replied, "Why should things be easy to
understand?" [...]
<http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/facts.html>
This web page also offers:
[...] Vladimir Nabokov didn't remember Pynchon very
well, but his wife recalled Pynchon's "unusual
handwriting: half printing, half script." [...]
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