Bloom on Pynchon

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< Most of the figures who have enormous contemporary reputations in the 
American novel have very mixed achievements indeed – whether it is Saul Bellow or 
Norman Mailer, or who you will. Pynchon, at his best is, I think, a very 
remarkable writer. >>

This is far more praiseworthy, but again, not what was attributed (greatest 
writer in the English language)  Indeed, he says that (approximately:  "most 
powerful") about Beckett.