Against the use of dictionaries and other extraneous materials

[Dave Monroe]

Well, that's part of my point, that author/dictionary
dichotomy is fuzzy at best, not in the elast when the
author has inetrnalized the dictionary, perhaps even
has become the dictionary.  And Pynchon hisself ahs
detailed at times his sources (e.g., on the Herero),
so ...

--- mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:

> wouldn't your ideal author - like Rasselas? - not
> need a dictionary, because they'd already swotted
> (love that word) all the needful definitions and
> derivations and permutations and were always writing
> from that knowledge (which is kind of how I picture
> Thomas Pynchon)

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