pynchon reference in delillo

[Richard Romeo]

Always wondered about the writing of Mao 2 and the Bill Gray
character--he's so similar in many ways to Pynchon who gave the book
high praise

Not sure the writer/terrorist connection really makes all that much
sense--seems like a random link that DeLillo created to fit within the
theme of his book--maybe artist would've been a better factor to use
than writer--there's a certain jeanette winterson-like smugness in
upholding some primacy for a writer in society

I mean who would make such a connection--I'm glad most of pynchon's
characters are not writers.

p.s. have to admit looking forward to seeing metallica documentary, Some
Kind of Monster
rich


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Subject: pynchon reference in delillo


I found a remarkable passage in White Noise that reads like a 
rewriting of "The Secret Integration". In my edition (Penguin) it can 
be found at pp. 258-9, anyway it's in Ch. 34, and it's when Gladney 
examines the trash bag, emptying it in the garage and picking though 
the waste item by item. The thoughts of Jack read like a comment on 
Pynchon's story...

"I picked though them item by item, mass by shapeless mass, wondering 
why I felt guilty, a violator of privacy, uncovering intimate and 
perhaps shameful secrets. (...) But why did I feel like a household 
spy? Is garbage so private? Does it glow at the core with personal 
heat, with signs of one's deepest nature, clues to secret yearnings, 
humiliating flaws?"

WHich is the basic idea of Pynchon's SI.

umberto rossi
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