De Lillo

[Richard Romeo]

Yes, his breakthrough novel

We are ever more searching the skies for that new and improved Airborne
Toxic Event

rich
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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of umberto rossi
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 12:21 PM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: De Lillo


I know, when DeLillo's parens or grandparents arrived in Ellis Island 
the usual white anglosaxon clerk (this is a wild guess, probably the 
clerk was: a. Polish Jewish, b. Armenian, c. Irish) misspelt the 
surname and the Italian De Lillo became the Italian-American DeLillo, 
which always annoys my Italian eye, so why couldn't I restore its 
original spelling? But this is just a detail. What is interesting is 
that I am discovering a great novel, full of carefully camouflaged 
Pynchonic manterials and also of a lot of JGB, just to name non-US 
postmodern writers...

It's a shame, I am reading White Noise at 44; what was I doing 
before?

umberto rossi
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