more pynchon in wn

[umberto rossi]

"Why are you here, white man?"
"To buy."
"You are very white, you know that?"
"It's because I'm dying."
"This stuff fix you up."
"I'll still die."
"But it won't matter, which comes to the same thing."

I might be wrong, but this white man dying in ch. 39 of White Noise 
reminds me of the deadly white man in GR, that is Dominus Blicero. 
Far-fetched? There are many things that smell of GR in WN: the Hitler 
Studies department, the omnipresence of death, the destruction coming 
from above (not the rocket but the airborne toxic disaster), the 
chamical experiment (Dylar as an avatar of Imipolex?), etc. De Lillo 
didn't want to walk the same paths of Thomas, but he couldn't pretend 
those things weren't there. There's hints throughout the novel, as if 
acknowledging the debt to the older novelist.

Older? What a foolish thing to say. A quick check told me that De 
Lillo is actually 1 year older than Pynchon. I wonder why TRP started 
before him.

umberto rossi
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		"A mulatto
		An albino
		A mosquito
		My libido"