Kubrick & Pynchon

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< Although Doug's idea that Pynchon's earlier writings could indeed have 
influenced these particular movies is certainly worth discussing ...>>

Believe me we're all anxious to hear that.

<<I didn't talk here about direct influence during the 1960s yet about close 
thematic 

neighborhood to GR ...>>

My point to Scoop.

<<...  which, in my ever so humble opinion, Kubrick must have been aware of 
after the novel was published and - I stand to this - probably motivated him to 
read the Rainbow (and then also the others) during the mid 70s or later.  >>

I'm speaking to the deaf, I know, but, for others who probably think I'm 
being gratuitously mean, you seem to miss the illogic of this.

Rather than argue with you, which is clearly fruiitless, let me suggest you 
read a story by Borges called "Kafka and His Precursors."

The point, by the way, is not to show you the ways in which Borges was 
influenced by Pynchon.