An Introduction

[Vincent BRACQ]

Hello all,

I'm not new here, I awaited a little time to see how the environment 
was there before introducing myself. I am 28 years old, nearly 29, I 
live in France, and I came on this list starting from the Yahoo list 
devoted to Pynchon, which I believe is not very active now. I 
discovered Pynchon one year ago, by the way of the fantasy writer Tim 
Powers. I can hardly say that I'm one of his good friends but, well, 
I'm a member of his list and  he quoted Pynchon among his major 
influences, I bought V and The Crying Of Lot 49.  And I loved them.  
Just as Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, Vineland and Slow Learner, in 
the order I read them.  As lately I was a little disappointed by the 
quality of the subjects on the timpowers list, I said to myself that it 
would be time to say hello for the first time to my friends of 
pynchon-l.

I don't know if there's any people who read Powers here. There's really 
some really good Powers books, especially The Stress Of Her Regard, 
Last Call and Declare. They can't compete with Mason & Dixon or 
Gravity's Rainbow, nevertheless.

Cheers
Vincent