What is best in life?

[Dave Monroe]

The New York Times Book Review
17 July 1966, pp. 24, 26

To the Editor:

In a recent letter to the editor, Romain Gary asserts
that I took the name "Genghis Cohen" from a novel of
his to use in a novel of mine, The Crying of Lot 49.
Mr. Gary is totally in error. I took the name Genghis
Cohen from the name of Genghis Khan (1162-1227), the
well-known Mongol warrior and statesman. If Mr. Gary
really believes himself to be the only writer at
present able to arrive at a play on words this
trivial, that is another problem entirely, perhaps
more psychiatric than literary, and I certainly hope
he works it out.

Thomas Pynchon,

New York City.

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cohen.html

--- Expletive Deleted <slothrup at saber.net> wrote:

> Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> >"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you,
> >and to hear the lamentation of the women" --Conan
> >the Barbarian (1982)  
> 
> I'm pretty sure that thee author of Conan cribbed
> that quote, which was originally attributed to
> Ghenghis Khan.



		
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