Pynchon's fat novel repudiated?

[joeallonby]

on 5/9/04 3:30 PM, Dave Monroe at monropolitan at yahoo.com wrote:

> Here's another question for y'all.  Pynchon 'n' Dante,
> Vineland 'n' The Divine Comedy, compare 'n' contrast,
> whatever.  For a friend.  Thanks ...
> 
> --- umberto rossi <teacher at inwind.it> wrote:
>> 
>> Dante (Alighieri) was *almost* forgotten for
>> centuries....
> 
Thanatoids! Shades of the dead!