melville/pynchon

[Burns, Erik]

rich wrote:

>is pynchon the modern version of melville?

Marge Simpson is the modern version of Melville!

sorry, just got my hands on a copy of the Episode and enjoyed it very much.
I also noticed TRP doesn't actually give Marge a blurb - he gives himself a
blurb. Yet another level of ironic self-parody, no? If I didn't already
think TRP had a fantastic and refined sense of humor, I might start thinking
he had a fantastic and refined sense of humor.

Tom Clancy, on the other hand, gives a blurb. And it is given as so many in
the book trade are: under false circs., out of full context. Equally funny,
for that. And the shades (an _obvious_ Kinbote reference).

etb