Bloom on Pynchon

[Ya Sam]

The origin (or maybe one of the origins) of the particular quote. BTW, 
somewhere between the 20th and 30th minutes of the Book TV feature he also 
mentions Pynchon, Delillo, Roth, McCarthy quartet.

Dumbing down American readers
By Harold Bloom, 9/24/2003

[...]

Today there are four living American novelists I know of who are still at 
work and who deserve our praise. Thomas Pynchon is still writing. My friend 
Philip Roth, who will now share this "distinguished contribution" award with 
Stephen King, is a great comedian and would no doubt find something funny to 
say about it. There's Cormac McCarthy, whose novel "Blood Meridian" is 
worthy of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," and Don DeLillo, whose "Underworld" 
is a great book.

Instead, this year's award goes to King. It's a terrible mistake.

full article here

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/24/dumbing_down_american_readers/






>From: MalignD at aol.com
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Bloom on Pynchon
>Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:41:56 EDT
>
><< What I cannot understand is how Malign can sincerely doubt the opinions,
>  interpretations of text, and knowledge of a person (much less a list of
>  what, dozens, maybe hundreds; for who knows what lurks in the heart of 
>the
>  P-List?). >>
>
>I asked that a particular quote (initially quotes) that I found doubtful be
>cited; you find that hard to understand.
>
>So far no cite.
>

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