Yet More New (and, Incidentally, Delicious) Pynchon Verbiage!

[Anville Azote]

On 12/5/06, David Kipen <kipend at gmail.com> wrote:
> First "Against the Day," then the Jon Stewart panegyric, and now this --
> will Thomas Pynchon's shameless craving for attention never end?
>
> All finest,
> David
>

In the linked article, TRP says, "Unless we were actually there, we
must turn to people who were, or to letters, contemporary reporting,
the encyclopaedia, the Internet, until, with luck, at some point we
can begin to make a few things of our own up.

"The worst you can call it is a form of primate behaviour."

In the SL introduction, he had said,  "Fascinating topic, literary
theft.  As in the penal code, there are degrees.  These range from
plagiarism down to only being derivative, but all are forms of wrong
procedure.  If, on the other hand, you believe that nothing is
original and that all writers 'borrow' from 'sources,' there still
remains the question of credit lines or acknowledgements."

Compare and contrast in five paragraphs; your essays will be due at
the end of the class period.

-A. A.